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About the Course

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 Ivan B

Aug 14, 2016

Good for learning the basics, includes some neat interviews with people who created the Internet.

By Lina V

Jan 24, 2016

Assignments were a bit difficult to be completed with the material explained during the lectures.

By Muhang T

Dec 25, 2021

The content feel a bit rushed and not really in depth, but a decent course for beginners though

By Patricia L

Nov 23, 2020

Very well explained, perhaps it would be nice to have more assignments so more can be practiced.

By Prashant

Aug 22, 2020

Good content and supportive study material and resources like codes are very useful

great course.

By Nguyen V L

Apr 16, 2020

This course provides some of the basic knowledge of how to use python to interact with internet.

By Guo H

Feb 26, 2017

There's in a change in the way of presenting the course. I prefer the previous 2 section though.

By Mina T

Sep 17, 2020

good course. Accessing web data is necessary for furthering your career in backend developement

By Pavithra

Aug 13, 2020

best to be here and learnt some of the most interseting things that can be done by using python

By ONGOLU V P R

Jul 26, 2020

this course is very awesome, you can know a lot about how python can be used to access web data

By Mukund P

Aug 25, 2018

very helpful and easy to understand. This has given a platform from where you can explore more.

By Yaqian W

Jun 25, 2020

Overall very informative, but some course contents are not sufficient to crack the assignment.

By Ashvin S

Jul 15, 2017

The assignments could've been a bit more complex but the lecture videos were really insightful

By Clemens T

Apr 15, 2016

The form of presentation in the previous courses (video and slides simultanously) were better.

By fengchunjin

Nov 20, 2015

I learn this class ,the exercise is very easy and do not takes pain to try for it.

Just so easy

By TANYA G

Jan 3, 2021

The last assignment was a bit less informative, but else was very good and understandable....

By Mingyang L

Aug 23, 2020

The course is good, but please make the instructions of each assignments more understandable.

By Caroline

Oct 31, 2019

Very good course, although I found it a little bit difficult to understand web data and APIs.

By Lyu R

Aug 11, 2019

In last two weeks, there are some new knowledge in assignments but not mentioned in lectures.

By Vay R

Nov 27, 2018

Tough class to fully understand. Had to read the book in addition to the videos to get it all

By 梁司其

Aug 29, 2016

Really a nice course! Dr. Chuck makes it easy to use Python to access web data! Thanks a lot!

By Ioannis G

Dec 24, 2015

Well done Professor Chuck and team! thank you once more for this awesome learning experience!

By Nhat D M

Dec 3, 2015

Pretty interesting course, in which I gained a lot of knowledge about access web with Python.

By SAUMITRA S

May 9, 2020

A very well structured course and I have to say Dr.chuck is the best mentor I have ever had.

By JF

Aug 27, 2017

Useful course for understanding the Python skills as well as the basic principles of the web