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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 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.

ML

Jun 16, 2017

Excellent course with in depth explanations. It is well structured. It learn to access Web Data from very basics to optimum level. It help me to understand details of using Python to Access Web Data.

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By vishwesh m

Jul 12, 2020

The pace of the course was just right however the difficulty level was slightly higher than I expected and the assignments were also pretty tough!

By RUI C

Jul 31, 2018

It would be better if there were more explanations and details of the codes. But I really learnt a lot since I did a lot of self teaching. Thanks!

By Mohammad A M

Sep 20, 2021

Overall it is a great course, but I think the parts about web scraping and APIs could have more explanations since they are complicated concepts.

By Christoph V

May 15, 2019

Please change the second assignement in week 6! The geojson homework is completely broken! Apart from that a nice overview to get into this topic

By Md. A A R A ,

Jun 2, 2020

This is a bit complex than first two course of Python specialization. Complex codes should be more elaborately explained specially in API parts.

By Valentin Q

Jul 11, 2018

Still very good but some code parts were too fast explained to be correctly learned - I would have needed more steps to understand it better ...

By Iheoma U

Aug 31, 2017

I wish greater detail was used for the api access...for instance twurl install didn't work so wasn't able to test various functionality using it

By Jim M

Jul 26, 2016

Strange as it may seem, I would have liked more assignments to reinforce all the new concepts I tripped over on my way to finishing this course.

By Manas D

Sep 6, 2020

As always it is fun to try things out with Dr.Chuck but i faces some probleme and didn't understand some topics as it was not expained properly

By Anupama C

Jul 30, 2019

"http://www.py4e.com/code3/geoxml.py" is not suitable sample code for assignment "Extracting data from XML". It makes thing looked complicated.

By Filippo A

May 30, 2019

Though it rushes on some of the advanced concepts, making it difficult to master them, it still a great example of what MOOCs should look like.

By daidaista

Jun 1, 2016

Great course! The reason why I didn't give 5 stars is that assignments are too easy. If we can resolve some real problems, that will be better.

By Shigeru M

Dec 5, 2015

This course really teaches me what I wanted to know. Text and sample codes are wonderful. I think it's easier now for me to step up. Thank you.

By Benjamin L

May 6, 2020

Good survey of different skills needed and problems that you may encounter. I didn't always feel prepared to complete some of the assignments.

By Rupesh A

Jan 19, 2019

This course of python is very good. I learnt different things from this course like reading XML file ,JSON file, HTML, and regular expression.

By 慈曦

May 20, 2017

fundamental and good

great professor

I like this course

but i think the assignment maybe too easy

but still,you can learn something in this course

By Anmol g

Jan 16, 2016

It was Ok! The preofessor has a good style of teaching, but the depth of material could have been better and the assignments more challenging.

By ARUN K

Apr 10, 2021

it will be slightly confusing during starting as we cross and go to xml it gets easier

dont stop with week 3 just go ahead you can complete it

By Alison T

Dec 24, 2015

overall covered a lot of interesting material - hope to see more classes that dive deeper into webscraping and not just getting at the basics

By Sekhar A B

May 8, 2021

A step up from the previous 2 courses. it would have been helpful to include links to more documentation for things like parsing, XML, JSON.

By Akshaya V

Oct 11, 2019

XML was too tough. More time should have been spent to explain how to parse data and use it through xml.Otherwise this course was AWESOME!!!

By Sagar S

Feb 3, 2016

All these courses really need to be updated to Python 3. There is no advantage in sticking to Python 2 anymore with Python4 on the horizon

By Vallian S

Nov 26, 2021

The last API assignment was really confusing. I used the code sample from PY4E website and it worked in one try without changing anything.

By Pablo A R G

Nov 12, 2020

Incredible the scope Python has to extract data from the web, this course increased my desire to delve into the service-oriented approach.

By Sylvie

May 24, 2020

The professor's explanations in this course were a bit less detailed than in the first two courses, but overal the course was really good!