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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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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.

AH

Mar 3, 2016

Gah! The second last assignment...for items in data['comments'] :Took me an hour to figure out that I needed to add that last bit in brackets! It just did the for loop twice each time... All the best!

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By 林祐任

Aug 30, 2020

The course, which is the third course in Python for Everybody, is concise as the previous ones. However, for those who are not familiar with the Internet, the course seems to jump too fast a bit.

By Sourabh D

Aug 27, 2019

Somewhat lacks details. I guess the topics covered is vast compared to the time frame for the course. Anyway, I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude to Dr Chuck for the amazing contents.

By Saily T

Sep 6, 2018

This course is really nice helpful.

Week 6, SOA explanation PPT is really nice .

In week 5 quiz contain detail questions that are not explained ,I didn't find then in book.

overall Course was good.

By Sha L

Dec 1, 2016

It's a good course, very well organized, useful and with great interviews of pioneers of the Internet. Not very challenging though for someone who has a few years programming experience with C++

By Warren Y B

May 1, 2023

Muy buen curso aunque un poco complicado al usar JSON y XML. Creo que esa parte debió tener mas tiempo de enseñanza ya que es casi imposible crear un código sin tener a mano un ejemplo ya hecho

By Alice W

Nov 9, 2020

Very good, and the material was challenging to learn. It felt like an overall look of XML, HTML, and JSON mixed with Python. I liked it, but some of the codes or instructions may need updating.

By Udbhav J

Sep 9, 2017

Knowledge of Internet Architecture would be very helpful before beginning this course. Its a decent course but being a complete novice, I found myself lost completely on more than one occasion.

By HAROLD D C R

Jun 10, 2021

No me gusto que para el trabajo del uso del geoapi se debiera usar literalmente el mismo codigo, casi me paso igual con el desarrollo del BeautifulSoup, pero el profe es de lo mejor la verdad

By Todd M

Feb 1, 2020

XML got a bit difficult, but its understandable since JSON is becoming so prevalent. Need a better animation for service applications. Current one is boring compared to how Dr. Chuck explains.

By BHAVIK K

Jan 1, 2020

Very Good course by Dr. chuck. It has encourage me to learn more deeper in the field of web scrapping and data science. Some part was boring but overall course provides great value. Thank you!

By Kunyang X

Feb 3, 2018

The lecturer is fabulous. However, I think the assignment should be as hard as the actual one in university. In such difficulty, we would fully remember and understand how to use what we know.

By Rohan K

Jun 24, 2017

The assignments were a bit easy as most of the code is given in the examples. But overall a very nice course, many topics covered, I am definitely more confident about my skills in python now.

By jenniferhu

Jun 8, 2017

It's great materials but the mentor or teaching staff is not helping a lot. They should emphasize on the key point instead of talking indirectly all the time. I'm sorry but this is how I feel.

By John E C R

Oct 5, 2022

I've learned a lot of new content about hot to apply python for accessing to web data, although some content, specially related with APIs is outdated and doesn't work as shown in the videos.

By PRATIK B

May 31, 2020

Quite difficult compared to the first 2 courses and I had difficulty in understanding these concepts as clearly as the earlier ones. However, Dr.Charles Severence seems to be a great teacher.

By Ioannis R

Mar 19, 2021

Useful and once again very well taught. The coding covered is quite different to what was taught in the previous modules and some expressions are not intuitive additions to prior knowledge.

By tiafvoonug k x

Jan 27, 2016

Once more, I really enjoyed the course and the assignments.

the later became sightly harder to get at the end, but with a bit of thinking and testing I got through it.

Keep upo the good work.

By Mojtaba A

Jan 6, 2022

I loved the course. The most amazing part of the course was its unique assignments that was special adesigend and unlike the other fellows.

Special Thanks to Dr. chuck and Coursera. LOVE

By Marcel v D

Dec 20, 2016

The assignments could be a little bit more challenging, on the other hand, they each address some part of the skills I want to learn. Probably I should hold my breath for the capstone. :-)

By Susmita S

Jun 18, 2020

This was a little difficult course for a beginner. A little more explanation could be given as to why certain parts of the code were used. Overall it was a good course as an introduction.

By Deepanshu C

May 12, 2020

This course is a lot challenging and complex than the previous courses. I feel that this course needed to be divided into two courses so as to be true to its name, 'Python for Everybody'.

By Gervasi A

Dec 30, 2015

Very good introduction to python and its application to access web data. Dr Severance makes the process fun and easy to access. I would maybe have appreciate more complicated assessments.

By Gabriele G

Apr 1, 2019

Parsing XML and JSON w/ Python is an extremely useful set of skills to exploit in the IT industry; I would suggest many more exercises on lists and dictionaries though; Totally worth it.

By Patrik K

Jan 10, 2021

I really enjoyed this course, but assignments were quite easy and it was just about editing some written codes and not writing new one. But I like how Dr. Chuck explains and teaches. :)