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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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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.

DA

Apr 23, 2020

Great course. The lectures are clear and thorough. The assignments are challenging yet doable. The only thing I would like is to see more assignments to get more practice with the techniques learned.

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By chandrani t

Dec 24, 2016

This is best course for anyone who is learning programming. The course starts with the understanding of basics in programming followed by complex usage.

By DAVID E A

Sep 6, 2016

Learned a lot about Google and other APIs, and how to use them! Definitely helpful when learning about how to access and analyse important data sources!

By Ferenc C

Jan 20, 2016

The course provides useful knowledge. It's fun to learn with Dr. Chuck, he is a great teacher.

Thank you for all the knowledge, I will definitely use it.

By Feiyang N

Nov 21, 2015

The course is short but so much fun! I learned a lot from the course material as well as the interviews with those big names in CS. Great job, Dr Chuck!

By Isheeta S

Oct 29, 2023

It was mind opening, very well organised and the programs and tests were fun and interesting to do! I would definitely recommend you to do this course.

By Darrel S

Feb 13, 2021

Very interesting course. This shows some of the coding used by some of the big tech giants, and also gives an in depth explanation as to how APIs work.

By Faiz M

Dec 24, 2020

I loved learning this course, but one biggest hurdle for many students was topics like web scraping, which were hard to understand in a single lecture!

By Daniel A E L

Aug 5, 2020

Fantastic course! Dr. Chuck is an excellent professor! The course content is very deep, clearly exposed and very funny. I hope people could enjoy it!

By Juan G H M

Jul 28, 2020

Excelente curso que muestra como con un poco de conocimiento en Python se puede acceder a información en internet usando web scraping, xml, json o api.

By Victor M T S

Jun 25, 2020

Excelente curso, el profesor es de altísima calidad magistral, el curso es bastante bueno para aprender sobre la web y como acceder a ella desde Python

By Kasthuri A D G H

Apr 16, 2020

Superb course. Very harder considering the first 2 courses. I gave a lot of effort to complete the assignments and I studied a lot. Thank you so much!!

By Cathryn S

Feb 22, 2020

A good, simple review of the basic components of working with the web - REST, json, xml, http. Just a flavour, but gives you the tools to get started.

By Kelechi O

Sep 17, 2019

The course made use of learnings from previous courses, making the knowledge gained incrementally. As always Dr. Chuck is a great and humorous teacher.

By David K

Apr 22, 2019

Dr. Chuck is an excellent teacher. The example he gave are right to the point and are practical to use in real-life programming. Thank you Dr. Chuck.

By Jaco B

Dec 30, 2017

The assignments are getting a bit more complex. Good understanding of the data and how to cycle through it is now needed. Dr. Chuck explains very well.

By Dominic P

Nov 27, 2016

Not to easy so you have to understand what does what you want while not being so hard that you cannot find the answer and solve your errors by yourself

By Bruno

Feb 2, 2016

Amazing course! It has a good pace, in terms of level of difficulty, it progresses really well! Dr. Chuck is an amazing professor and does a great job!

By Zoe

Nov 4, 2015

This is the first course I actually finished and understood completely. Dr. Chuck is the greatest professor I've ever met! Thank you Dr. Chuck! :))))))

By Tushar

Feb 17, 2023

Great couse as alwayalwaysalways.Dr.chickchuck goes through the Web scraping basics to various python libraries to he used for web scrapiweb scraping.

By edwin l

Oct 12, 2020

Muchas gracias por este curso, me ayudo a explorar el funcionamiento de la web y su codificacion. Ademas la extraccion de datos dentro de paginas web.

By Aayush M

Jun 9, 2020

Dr.Chuck, you really laid out the lessons beautifully and precisely. One can easily understand all the topics and grasp all the values. Hats off, sir!

By Yucheng F

Oct 6, 2019

Too much contents in this course, though, it is great, because sometimes, as a beginner, you don't have to understand all the detail of some commands.

By Deepak A

May 9, 2019

A very good course structure and the instructor is one of the best, the REST API description is just great, a recommended one for all python aspirants

By Hsien-Yi T

Feb 15, 2019

I would recommend this course to everyone as this course has well organized content and Dr. Charles demonstrated an excellent teaching style. Like it!

By Sol O

Aug 25, 2018

I hope that we dive more deeply into these topics in the future classes. I like the format of the class and would gladly take as many as were offered.