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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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AH

Mar 4, 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!

SM

Jun 19, 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.

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By Sebastián H Q

Aug 30, 2020

An excellent course.

The only weakness is associated with some no-explained commands and functions. This could lead to a mechanic development of the end-tasks of each week.

By Mohit J

Jun 21, 2020

there was too much jumping between files and the code for twitter2.py dint work at first because oauth from python dint work so I had to download oauth from the sample code

By Eddie T

Jul 15, 2017

Great introduction course to python with internet protocol/API/Scraping knowledge. I'll recommend this course to who is new to python to follow the whole series of courses.

By Roger G

Jun 22, 2017

Verry good introductory course into using python to access web data. Gives good background information. The exercises are quite easy for people with IT or Python knowledge.

By Aymane H

Apr 27, 2020

It was a hard course but the instructor simplified it and with little practise and revising the course i think i can master how to access other web data using differnt api

By John L

Mar 10, 2019

Somewhat diffcult maybe it is bacause the web is of nature complicated and you need to figure out many notion to pass the exam with full score. In grneral, a great course.

By Ranish P

Nov 7, 2015

This is an awesome and the 'best' course I've taken in my entire career . Thanks a ton to Dr. Charles Severance and University of Michigan for materializing this course.

By Mauricio C G

Dec 13, 2016

Immense gratitude for Dr.Chuck and his team for this great job. This kind of virtual programs can bring knowledge to more population and overcome the educational barrier.

By laura e E M

Jul 2, 2022

Este curso me parecio excelente para introducir el tema de datos webs en python. Pongo 4 estrellas solo porque nunca pude hablar con el profesor y me hacia ilusion hahah

By Ronald W

Jul 12, 2020

Still very good content but it's getting a bit tough for beginners like me and also I get confused about the relationships among different concepts, like http, xml, json

By Robert F

Apr 23, 2020

Good course. A lot of background info that could be cut down but good for context. XML and JSON videos and assignments were very challenging but great to work through.

By nianlong

Oct 23, 2017

ompare the first two courses this one is a little bit harder, and not so friendly to a fresher. There are still lots of things need to be learnt about spidering the web.

By vaddemani c s

Sep 11, 2020

this particular course did not reach my expectations. as I did not have a background in computer science lots of the complicated concepts were not thoroughly explained.

By Damian C

Dec 6, 2019

I took this course as part of the specialization, and I am glad I did. Great course, I hope It will help me in the near future, when I feel comfortable changing career.

By Jerry S

Apr 10, 2017

The course material is great, but the assignment is too simple, especially the last(You don't need to write any codes). I think the assignments can be more challenging.

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 26, 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 16, 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 6, 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 ..