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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.

ML

Jun 16, 2017

Excellent course with in depth explanations. It is well structured. It learn to access Web Data from very basics to optimum level. It help me to understand details of using Python to Access Web Data.

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By Adri K

Mar 24, 2023

The course was very informative, and Dr Charles Severance is an excellent teacher, but will it be enough for me to at least get a job and not die due to unemployment?

By Saurabh T

Apr 29, 2020

I really enjoyed the the assignment. It was challenging and worth doing it. I am sure kind of knowledge which i gain by solving the assignment is worth time spending.

By Joost M

May 5, 2020

really liked the lectures and the assignments. Only negative feedback is around installing beautiful soup, what was not working because of the type of bash terminal.

By Kevin C

Sep 25, 2019

Great course, however skimmed over some key topics that are pretty fundamental to understanding not just the Python but the context of Python in web data extraction.

By Lucheng Q

Aug 30, 2018

getting harder and harder but interesting because it gives chance for me to communicate with the actual application in the daily life. Great start accessing the web!

By Michael T

Feb 8, 2017

Very good course showing how to interact with the internet. Assignments could have been a little more taxing but on the whole it gives a flavour of what is possible.

By Yakubu A

Aug 15, 2020

I had an exciting moments studying this course. I have enjoyed the bonus and office hours. The course is also equip with how things come by that is the discoveries.

By LINKAIJIE

Aug 5, 2020

it would better to teach the concept of api_key. The overall training is good, but i am just confused about how to implement the api_key in real scenario. Thanks ;D

By Shouwen

Aug 23, 2019

It's a little bit more difficult than the former two courses, of course, it's a great course but I think it could be better it there are more details for beginners

By Abhishek G

Nov 18, 2018

assignments are actually challenging. pls it a request that give more assignments that are challenging and makes our concept strong .. hope u guys consider it ..

By ABHINAV R

Mar 28, 2018

Python with real life application or gist of i, enough to get started is what will you learn in this course. Definitely recommended. Thank You Charles Serverance.

By Charles S

Nov 24, 2017

Really understandable and clear, and always enjoyable. I felt like at this point we were covering a lot of ground and could use additional programming exercises.

By Shakirullah S

Jun 23, 2022

The course was very helpful and provided a lot of useful information. It was interesting to follow and the assignments were great for practicing what we learned.

By Rashmi R

Apr 20, 2020

I had to resubmit 3 of the assignments though I had already submitted the right one before and it also displayed that my answer was correct. Please fix this bug.

By Deleted A

Dec 18, 2017

This course is very good to understand power of python to fetch the data from web. It helped me to write efficient code to web scrap and parse the required data.

By Mahesh S

Oct 6, 2016

The lectures are very good. I would recommend that more examples be added in the book. This will help students solve problems and understand the concepts better.

By Kristers P

Aug 9, 2016

I would say a very good introduction to the topic.

Would be nice if maybe in the future you would add some more advanced excersises ( just to gain more practice)

By Hriday M

Dec 17, 2018

As always Professor Severance was amazing. However, I wish he'd covered API's in more detail as i still don't quite understand what exactly is happening in them

By Truong A H L

Oct 4, 2020

Excellent course brought by Dr. Charles Severance. In spite of the difficulty of the assignments, I have achieved a broader view and understanding of web data.

By ADITYA S

May 25, 2020

The course is great, I just wish the assignments could've been a bit tough and explanation of the concepts and the code could've been a bit more comprehensive.

By Philipp B

Dec 5, 2015

Very good course, I would like to have seen some more challenging assignment. Other than that, very stimulating and learned a lot about web protocols and data.

By Adam E

Sep 16, 2020

Good overview, but not as comprehensive as the last two classes. Also some of the exercises had errors which caused unnecessary delays in working the problem.

By Allen B

Feb 4, 2019

I recommend this course to every student who wants to learn python.

Its a great course and the instructor helps in making the course more interesting to learn.

By Cian D

Jun 9, 2020

Overall pretty good, some of the last assignments have misleading, false, or information not addressed in the lectures that make them unnecessarily difficult

By Juan D R G

Dec 8, 2015

I personally find this course usefull. It teaches good current tools

Dr Chuck is a very motivating guy.

In order to get better the course needs more exercises