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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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The course teaches the basics of how to interact with the internet using Python. The course is simple, well explained, has great interviews with people who were part of the creation of the internet.

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This course is really very useful.The effort given by Dr.Chuck is very appriciateable and this course is very interesting as well because many great programmer told their history of discovered thing.

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By Hitesh K

Sep 15, 2020

Awesome course, great to know how data travels across the web.

xml and json great inventions

By Abdelrahman M

Aug 11, 2020

amazing for a start I think but I learned a lot of things and it was funny and entertaining

By Aparna R

Aug 2, 2020

This course is really helpful for me to develop my programming skills in accessing web data

By Avinash A B

Jul 27, 2020

I have learn JSON, API, XML and much more thanks for this great course it's really helpful.

By Jason F

Jul 24, 2020

The lessons were clear. Examples were explained well so this course get 5 out of 5 from me

By Zirui C

May 18, 2020

More worked assignment videos please, and TA could have explained questions more in details

By Sitikanta P

May 4, 2020

Thanks Dr chuck...

I have gained a lot about web scrapping ,data interchange format in web..

By praveen b

Sep 21, 2019

Great course! Thank you very much for the wonderful material and fantastic way of teaching.

By zfdave

Dec 31, 2017

That's very nice coursera,

Using Python to access web data is .... such easy and convenient

By Bryant V

Oct 29, 2017

Overall, great course and continuation of the material we started in the first two courses.

By Carlos A

Mar 17, 2017

Awesome material. Great introduction with practical applications. Awesome lecturer. Thanks!

By Abhishek B

Nov 21, 2016

Very simple and straightforward explanation. Dr. Chuck is wonderful at explaining concepts.

By Hill

Nov 20, 2016

Access the web is my pain point since I begin to learn Python. This course is very helpful.

By Kai W

Oct 8, 2016

Very nice! The tutor, with some humor, truly illustrates the concepts and ideas perfectly.

By Zihao M

Feb 27, 2016

It's great with all the material provided free in the course. It's really a nice professor!

By Daniel M

Feb 7, 2016

Very engaging instructor. Great pedagogy.

Content of the course might be somewhat outdated.

By Deleted A

Dec 6, 2015

Very practical. Chuck's is the best at explaining things. Very simple, useful and hands on.

By ANINDYA C

Apr 29, 2023

Thank you coursera for give me that opportunity to learn various subjects efficiently. 🙏

By Nguyen D L

Jun 23, 2021

Great course on Python Web Programming. I would love to share this with my 9th grader son!

By Matthias S

Nov 17, 2020

Great and motivational teacher, great materials and great pacing - many many many thanks!

By Tanmay C

Oct 31, 2020

provides a concise yet informative introduction to the data present on the world wide web.

By Akhil S B

Oct 23, 2020

One of the few python courses that i really liked . The mentor Dr Chuck was also very good

By Diana D C

Oct 18, 2020

Excellent course, I have larned a lot durings this time, The professor explains very well.

By Nehal M

Jul 28, 2020

Dr. Chuck makes learning so easy and fun. I can't stop myself from completing his courses.

By Tithi B

Jun 10, 2020

I am fully satisfied with the brief teaching way for which I could learn from this course.