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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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interesting course. well structured and paced with practical real-life examples and clear study materials. i strongly recommend this course for anyone considering learning python. Thank you Dr. Chuck!

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By Bassam G K

Aug 9, 2020

great work ... course needs more worked examples and a bit more in depth exercises with real life application

By Akshita C

Jul 16, 2020

Very Insightful course. Learned some cool stuff. Socket programming and JSON apis are my favourite topics now

By Arka R C

May 28, 2020

The instructor is excellent . His instructions are extremely clear and his way of teaching is very enjoyable.

By Kron A

May 21, 2020

Thank you Dr.Chuck! You are great man, you help me a lot. This course open a door of programming world to me.

By Ryan M

May 4, 2020

Great! Got a great start in using Python to access web data and am looking forward to expanding my skill set.

By Marc V

Apr 26, 2020

make me work and go back to software debugging and acquired back the various tricks for debugging code lines.

By mohammad a

Apr 8, 2020

hi,my name is mohammad atot ,and your site is very good and share experience with other s thank you very much

By Rishi r

Aug 21, 2019

This is an easy going course to learn from basic to intermediate. Thanks Dr. Chuck for your support and time.

By Jesse F

Apr 28, 2018

Went from illiterate in the first course, to pulling and extracting Google and Twitter API data like a champ.

By María C S d P M

Nov 28, 2016

Very good course. Excellent material, documentation and exercices. All with creative Creative Common Licence

By Zdeněk N

Aug 18, 2016

It has a lot of information about web in general. Dr Severance is fun to listen to and definitely not boring.

By Sebastian P

Jan 21, 2016

I like it!!! as always Chuck is clear and wise in make everybody undertand the contents of the course. thanks

By Noelia E

Nov 6, 2020

It was an amazing course. Dr. chuck is a great teacher. I learned a lot of interesting things for my career.

By Juan C F D

Nov 1, 2020

Very good, lot of things that show me Python is the best for integrating with most of the modern technologys

By Erick S G P

Jul 1, 2020

Such a great teacher. The explanations are very clear and the excercises are applied to real-world problems.

By Rajkumar P G

May 24, 2020

Excellent course.after completing this now i am able to extract data in different format like html,xml,json.

By Rifat R

Apr 28, 2020

Awesome. Professor, I want to pursue my PhD degree under your supervision. I have interests in Data Science.

By Каликина Т Г

Oct 22, 2019

It was a great course!I really liked!Many thanks to Dr. Chuck!And of course I will continue to study Python!

By George J

Oct 12, 2019

Really helpful to understand the concepts of web and how to make full use of python to extract data from web

By Achyut R

Jun 11, 2019

The sample code really helped a lot to get through the assignments! Fantastic experience taking this course!

By Mauricio S

Dec 30, 2018

Learned a lot and enjoyed the classes as always.

Hopping to finish the 5 courses until the end of next month.

By Somdeep D

Apr 5, 2017

An excellent course to breeze through for getting a disciplined knowledge in accessing web data with Python.

By Mark A N

Oct 27, 2016

Loved this course! Dr. Chuck is a great professor and takes the time to explain the details in this course.

By Olga Z

Apr 7, 2016

I have added Python to my resume, and now I am contacted by recruiters significantly more often than before.

By Surui S

Feb 27, 2016

learned a lot. From python regular expression, to open a file, read url data, web scraping, HTTP, XML, JSON.