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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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The course teaches the basics of how to interact with the internet using Python. The course is simple, well explained, has great interviews with people who were part of the creation of the internet.

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interesting course. well structured and paced with practical real-life examples and clear study materials. i strongly recommend this course for anyone considering learning python. Thank you Dr. Chuck!

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By BLACKKNICK

Mar 10, 2020

This course is well rewarded for me, and really inspiration for personal skill set development.

By SINDHU R M

Oct 18, 2019

The course is so good and also teaches us in a simple method so that we will understand easily.

By Aakash S

Sep 30, 2019

Course was nice. Gave good introduction to a concept which is incredibly hard to learn by self.

By Sandeep G

Jul 11, 2019

Happy to learn something new. The Professor makes this course intuitive rather than cumbersome.

By Harsh D

Jun 2, 2019

Can't thank Dr. Chuck enough for making it available this course as MOOC and free PY4E content.

By Luis R C P

Apr 23, 2019

Very dynamic and well explaned course. Easy to a biginer to start with this series of courses !

By Ali H K

Oct 26, 2018

It was nicely structured course. this course help me to find online jobs about website scraping

By Marinus C H

Aug 26, 2017

This helped a lot to getting data from an open data API for further analysis. Excellent course.

By Rahul K S

Jan 14, 2017

Import Grade

Import Teacher

print Grade(Teacher("Dr. Chuck"), Python)

>>> C:/python: grade.py

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By Alex M

Jan 12, 2017

Great teacher. My only complaint is that the course doesn't go very in depth into web scraping.

By 马伟进

Jan 18, 2016

introduce XML and json with REST, nice for starter, if you expect more, read more related books

By ziqin l

Jul 9, 2023

Although I have learned plenty of knowledge, I still hope the course can be more challenging .

By BRIAN A M C

Aug 22, 2021

curso fenomenal, muy bien explicado y ejercicios que hacen poner en prueba lo aprendido. 10/10

By Ron C

Jul 19, 2021

Good pace, and the assignments were challenging and encapsulated the subject matter perfectly.

By Eric P

Jul 4, 2021

This is great. As my first introduction to XML,JSON and APIs I think this is very informative

By NAcho b

Nov 8, 2020

Como siempre un curso divertido y entretenido. No se hace pesado y los contenidos muy a menos.

By SUBHAN A

Sep 19, 2020

It was a great course on how to use the easiest and most powerful language to access Web Data

By 何流

Aug 15, 2020

nice course to get an overview of how to access data from web, can dig deeper if one wants to!

By Nikhil

Jul 27, 2020

This course was comparitively harder than the first and the second course but reallly helpful.

By Travis B

Apr 9, 2020

Just the next course in a series of great courses by Dr. Chuck and the University of Michigan.

By ana z z a

Jul 19, 2018

Excellent, It's very nice to work in Python, create programs, read data, XML , data dictionary

By Radu-Iulian A

Jun 30, 2018

Great course! In this course you finally make use of the Python knowledge you gathered so far.

By Jase N T

Feb 27, 2018

Quite a challenging course. More challenging than the one with SQL. Still fun to learn though.

By Ryan M

Aug 14, 2017

This is an excellent course! A great way to learn the basics of python and modern data mining.

By Praveen G Y P

Jun 20, 2017

NIce way of bringing the class to understand the concepts and then work thing out on their own