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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 Kamol F

May 5, 2020

This was one tough course i must say! The assignments was bit of tough but i really enjoyed! Thanks coursera for the platform.

By Chau P

Sep 9, 2017

the assignments are especially harder for some sections and easier than others. instructions for assignment can be made clear

By Adam G

Feb 5, 2017

Good introduction to getting data from the web. I've used this course to scrape fantasy football data and analyse it in Excel

By Sehyun P

Dec 29, 2019

I was a bit hard than the previous two courses in specialization. But I could know more of the network lessons using python.

By J J

May 22, 2018

Good for beginners who need a lot of explanation and details of programming languages and how to apply it for data analysis.

By James C

Aug 1, 2017

Another good course! I would recommend giving a little more information on the Networked Programs and Web Services sections.

By Likhith K

Jun 3, 2020

Good course for beginners ,excellent explanation of assignments if find any difficulty in deciphering ,excellent instructor

By DEVASHISH B : C

Jun 10, 2020

Course is really goood but staff in the discussion forum is really pathetic.Answers to the questions are really senseless.

By Ganesh B

Jan 9, 2020

Great course in the python series.Got introduced about API and how to use it in the development of real world applications

By Cindy M

Nov 5, 2018

It was a good intro to the subject but could have used more depth in how the functions for accessing APIs actually worked.

By 朱强

Dec 27, 2016

There are an interesting course, great teachers, wonderful students and l will keep on learning other courses. Thank you !

By Yifei L

Nov 12, 2015

Content is good, with clear explanation.

The programming assignment could be improved by adding more challenging questions.

By Nick P

Jan 7, 2021

Many important things like how import works, were omitted. Otherwise a very good course and easy enough to understand it.

By Ritesh

Jun 16, 2020

Felt that the course could be more informative with some more concepts and could also incorporate a project kind of thing

By Youcheng L

May 23, 2018

The video is too easy while assignments are more difficult. Maybe we need more instruction in order to learn efficiently.

By Ahmed M (

Feb 1, 2018

this is amazing ,it will help me to my study

but I don't understand the last part (about API)

the system is really awesome

By William R

Dec 1, 2016

Could have used more graded homework problems. I understand the foundations, but could have used some more solidification

By diddier a h b

Dec 21, 2015

Good course, I think Charles should avoid explaining the code so in detail sometimes that makes the course pace very slow

By Patil J S

May 8, 2020

Easy explanations.., but just a little bit over-knowledged assignments.

Anyways., It was a fantastic journey..I loved it.

By Frank B D R

May 7, 2019

I wish I would have learned more of XML and JSON but the course was great for basics of working with Python and Web Data

By murali k

Jul 10, 2020

It's good!. This is one of my Python for Everybody Specialization course. XML, JSON, Google API's concepts are helpful.

By 18EUCS163 - R V

Mar 3, 2020

Gave some idea about How Python is well versed for many such fields and got some idea about the Networking,Json,Xml etc

By Saikat M

Dec 20, 2015

Its a nice course. To the point assignments(could have been tougher !). Lucid explanation. Please go ahead and take it.

By Md. J I

May 18, 2020

it is little bit tough than before but if you learn this course then you can do something in real life. happy coding:)

By Joe M

May 16, 2020

Compared to first two courses, this is a bit difficult one. But with patience and persistence, one can go through it.