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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 David O

Jan 2, 2020

Great course. Amazing how far Dr Chuck takes you in such a short period of time.

By Andy X

Jul 21, 2019

A useful and interesting course, but I think the BeatifulSoup needs more explain

By Alice

Mar 23, 2019

Quite challenging - make sure you have paid attention in the previous courses :)

By mahesh s

Dec 18, 2018

we are learning advance python concepts in this certification thanks to coursera

By Devon D

May 10, 2018

Great course although it was kind of tough, but good info if you like web topics

By Yayamaha

May 4, 2018

Very clear!

It's fun for me to learn how to extract data from files or websites!

By 乃毅 王

May 4, 2018

Help me a lot with demonstrating elaborately how xml and json work. Many thanks!

By Alexey P

Oct 15, 2017

Good course, interviews with Roy Fielding and Ian Horrocks are very nice extras.

By Eric K

Sep 17, 2017

It was a really fun course. The instructor enjoys teaching and I enjoy learning.

By Stefanie K

Jul 25, 2017

Great course that explains web access via python in an easy to understand format

By diego@opto.cetuc.puc-rio.br

Jul 21, 2017

Good course, I learn a lot about web data and how to parse the web using python.

By Manuel d J T A

Mar 11, 2017

Excellent Python web access , examples and practice real cases. Great Teaching!!

By lucas D P N

Jan 11, 2017

It's a well planned course and its content is used daily for a python developer.

By Ping Z

Jan 6, 2017

Good lecutres and nice explanations! Also the test and practical work is useful!

By Dennis G

Dec 16, 2016

Very simple, yet effective introduction for some useful tools. Thanks Dr. Chuck!

By Rui P

Aug 29, 2016

A great introduction course. However the assignments are not challenging enough.

By Deleted A

Jun 8, 2016

An excellent course, not only the Python instruction but also the various videos

By swati k

Aug 2, 2021

Great course and super assignment that is exactly excersice your mind to do it.

By Koh S M

Dec 5, 2020

Easy to understand despite super complicated material and really funny lecturer

By GREGORY M

Oct 4, 2020

Wonderful course. Thank you Dr. Chuck. Material was engaging and challenging.

By Jasmine

Sep 30, 2020

As usual, Dr Chuck is great at explaining and it makes learning so much easier!

By Catur A

Aug 24, 2020

Dr. Chuck is great and the division of the materials makes it easier to follow.

By Özgün G

Aug 24, 2020

This course was very helpful to me to understand web data. Thank you very much.

By Nandaluri P R

Aug 22, 2020

for those who wanted to get started with web scraping this will be a good start

By Soh L J

Aug 11, 2020

This course introduces basics of web access functions and application, love it!