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About the Course

This course will show how one can treat the Internet as a source of data. We will scrape, parse, and read web data as well as access data using web APIs. We will work with HTML, XML, and JSON data formats in Python. This course will cover Chapters 11-13 of the textbook “Python for Everybody”. To succeed in this course, you should be familiar with the material covered in Chapters 1-10 of the textbook and the first two courses in this specialization. These topics include variables and expressions, conditional execution (loops, branching, and try/except), functions, Python data structures (strings, lists, dictionaries, and tuples), and manipulating files. This course covers Python 3....
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SM

Jun 18, 2020

This course was really interesting and did a good job introducing complicated topics in usefully simplified form. It was a pleasure to listen to the instructor and I got everything I wanted out of it.

JM

Dec 2, 2016

I have not found an easy way to learn how to code with python language. Mentor are really helpful and Dr Chuck is one of the most self explain professor that I have met in my three university career.

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By David C J

Apr 23, 2017

Explain very well how to capture urls from the Internet and then manipulate them as files....

By Arnab B

Jan 22, 2017

Great course with enough practice content and thought provoking methods of accessing web data

By Qi W

Oct 8, 2016

I really like this course and how the lecturer presented the content in a very pleasing pace.

By David S

Mar 6, 2016

If Charles Severance jumped off a bridge, I would follow him; writing Python on the way down.

By Eranga L D S

Jan 20, 2016

I'm very satisfied with this course. The course material was good. I covered my expectations.

By Michael P N

Jan 18, 2016

Hands down the best python course I've come across. I look forward to completing this series.

By Haytham A

Oct 26, 2015

I think this specialization is the perfect entry point for programming newbies like myself...

By ambrose a

Nov 2, 2020

for a person learning to code for the first time, this course is awesome, easy to understand

By Gayatri M D

Jul 12, 2020

Very good and interesting course and the instructor is also very good in his teaching skills

By JOSEF Z

Jun 9, 2020

very nice course to quickly provide the basic understanding needed to pull data from the web

By Sudhanshu G

May 29, 2020

Very well structured course, professor has done an excellent job in explaining the concepts.

By Geoff G

May 2, 2020

Excellent teaching methodology, good solved examples ,the discussion forms were also helpful

By Dhrishaj G

Apr 28, 2020

Really good course. Only could use a video on how to install the bs4 library and pip install

By Harshit C

Apr 4, 2020

An extraordinary course I loved the way it was thought and I am glad to learn more like this

By Akash K S

Feb 16, 2020

I'd love the easy way you teach. I would love to meet you in personal and work with you sir.

By Fanus A

Dec 19, 2019

Great course. Great material. Motivational, Inspirational and engaging.

Thank you Dr. Chuck.

By Fangni T

Sep 11, 2019

Great course! It's little bit harder than I thought. I spend 2 hours for each hw in average.

By Abhinav A

Aug 30, 2018

Excellent assignments problems were there ,which helped to understand concept in better way.

By Lokesh H

Sep 14, 2017

this is nice course and i am learning these new things in this course

thank you coursera.org

By Dushyant S K

May 22, 2017

awesome course, Very helpful and Dr Chuck was great he taught each and everything very well.

By XU K

May 7, 2017

THANKS FOR TEACHER Charles Severance,it's a good teacher even i watch him through the screen

By Leihua Y

Mar 8, 2016

This course sequence is one of the best. It really helps me to build up python from scratch.

By Pan L

Feb 24, 2016

It's an excellent course/specialization for a programming starter form Dr. Chuck.

Really thx.

By Lance D

Jan 23, 2016

Dr. Chuck in one of the best profs I've ever had, even though I've never actually met him...

By Andres F A H

Jan 9, 2016

It is a really good course, the video classes are really clear and the topic is very useful.