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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 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.

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!

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By Sofía I Q R

Jan 11, 2021

I think these skills are very useful however they weren't explained very well. The first courses were waaaay better

By Rinkesh V

May 11, 2020

in this part we are not taught deep information about web accessing model so this part is a kind of tough and messy

By Josh J

Jun 6, 2019

Some of the assignments are a far stretch from what is in the chapter. the content is fine and fun to go through.

By Sid S

Nov 12, 2021

you have to explain all the lengthy code in a proper way so we can understand what's going on in between the url

By Lai J

Apr 30, 2020

instructions and teaching were all over the place, key details were missed out and i have to do assignment on it

By BINELLO M

Mar 28, 2021

Quite interesting, but I must confess that, after the first two courses, this one did not make me so enthusiast

By Olivier N

Jan 12, 2016

Good course, but I might have used a little more rigor and material, maybe more exercises would have been nice.

By Soham P

Apr 19, 2020

Too much content squeezed in. Covered up material too fast. For beginners in networking, it is very difficult.

By Harry V

Jan 12, 2016

More material, or coverage of the existing material with more library coverage would have improved the course.

By Cracker Z

Aug 12, 2019

Overall good. Sometimes feel information is not very sufficient and does not explain clearly in some details

By Dikshant V

Jul 2, 2020

was fun in the beginening but i had problems compiling my programs as json library didnt worked in my IDLE

By manchala v k

May 31, 2020

i think this course is too high after completing the data structures.....it completely blown off my mind.

By Andres V S

Oct 26, 2020

Teacher isn't good at explaining, had to look for better examples elsewhere to complete the exercises.

By Ganesh V

May 3, 2020

I just byhearted this course.

I didn't fully understand which part in the code executes which function.

By Yifeng L

Oct 31, 2018

It's not as difficult as I expected. The course is good for beginners but I think it could go deeper.

By Varun

Jan 28, 2018

sockets and regular expressions were not explained very well. Detailed explanations would have helped

By Federico C

May 18, 2018

Still very good! But probably due to the wide subject the concepts are not explained clearly enough.

By Paula B

Mar 13, 2018

This was harder than the past two, lost my rhythm a bit too and I don't feel as confident with this.

By patel k d

Jan 5, 2018

my knowledge about the internet things is little poor thats why my gric will be lose in this portion

By Константин К

Oct 10, 2017

A lot about offtopic. Lack of details about python related stuff within socket and web parsing stuff

By James A

Nov 24, 2022

Don't ask for help in the discussion forums unless you want the staff/instructors to patronize you.

By Asena U

Sep 8, 2016

Not clear examples in the videos. Tests are way different than what the Prof. covers in the videos.

By Rajat O

Feb 21, 2019

URLs provided sometimes doesn't show results in urllib.request. Else, things were fine and clear.

By Evan M

Oct 14, 2017

Was unnecessarily complex in week 4, 5, 6 trying to gather web based data for the assignments

By Javier C

Sep 20, 2020

It was not so interesting/useful as the other Python courses included in the Specialization