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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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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 Vincent A

Aug 13, 2019

The last assignment was very confusing and the links might not have been updated. It was frustrating

By petri.k.virtanen

Feb 15, 2019

Good teaching, allthough there were lot of material.

Some exercises was quit hard and some very easy.

By juan c

Nov 9, 2016

Really interesting course, maybe some higher level exercises are required for a deeper comprehension

By Jingyuan H

Sep 26, 2020

Gives you some general idea of accessing web data. Homeworks are pretty easy with his sample codes!

By LI S

May 17, 2020

This might still be a bit hard for someone without CS background, but intersting to learn about it.

By Josephraj V

May 1, 2020

Great course for those who have learned the basics of Python. Nice video Lectures by the professor.

By Mohamed A

Sep 17, 2017

an amazing course, to make the most out of it you should have a little back ground about networking

By NITISH K

Jul 11, 2017

It is a good course to play with XML, JSON, SQL, SQLite, Google API, Twitter API etc. using python.

By Dmitry S

Nov 15, 2016

I liked the course overall, but assignments are so easy compared to the material given in lectures.

By Jiajia W

Apr 14, 2019

感觉对于Python coding能力没有较好的训练,作业大部分是在已有复杂代码基础上做点小改变。很多Python的基础概念没有讲得很清楚。要真的对Python有个基本掌握还需要自己再另外学习很多

By Tyler B

Sep 1, 2017

I enjoyed the first two courses of the specializations a bit more, but still think this was solid.

By Satish S

Sep 9, 2020

Basically this course help us to retrieve data from web,xml and json and give us knowledge of API

By PIYUSH

Aug 28, 2020

this was a very nice course. learned a lot of things from it, surely gonna practise those things.

By Gourav C

Jul 3, 2020

This was a very good course for those who want to learn how to access the data from the websites.

By Omkar P

May 1, 2020

the assignment question are complex to understand as compare to previous courses... over all Good

By Chue J C

Jun 12, 2017

Skills are useful for accessing web data. Dr Chuck definitely explains the concepts very clearly.

By Kristiyan K

Dec 8, 2016

A practical course with easy to understand examples. My only grudge is that it is not on Python3.

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 26, 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