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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!
By Md. S R
•Jul 3, 2020
This course is absolutely fantastic. I have learned from it how to access web data, this was amazing learning I have ever completed. I enjoyed it a lot. I appreciate Dr. Chuck's endeavor highly. He is an awesome teacher and he teaches the students with fun!
By Ahmad A
•Feb 7, 2020
Very great, it might be a fundamental course but, it contains very useful info about Regular Expressions, Networking, Sockets, Transfering data, URL library, Beautiful soup, XML and its Schemas, JSON and some APIs including Google Geocoding and Twitter API
By Kaloyan A
•Jul 7, 2019
Great course, great teacher, useful knowledge... what more can a student, eager to learn, might want! Dr. Chuck and his forum moderators has made the experience of learning Python a true pleasure. I highly recommend this course and the whole specialization.
By adolfo c r d a
•Dec 16, 2015
With other courses, I was having the feeling I was going nowhere. With this one I am enjoying it a lot because we are actually doing fun things, like accessing a web page and extracting information that can be used for whatever else. Extremely practical! :)
By Scott G
•Dec 16, 2020
Interesting topics, great to make meaningful applications, that could have real world uses.
More challenging than previous courses. Although the solutions are short and elegant, you will need a good understanding of lists and dictionaries to complete them.
By Chang
•Apr 4, 2020
I learned a lot about accessing web data from this course. I think this is a course that generally tells you basics about HTML,XML and JSON. If you want to have deeper understanding of accessing web data, you can take other courses which are more specific.
By Marek O
•Jun 23, 2017
Once again, great course! This time was very challenging but when i stuck into a problem Dr Chuck helped me with his lecture!
One thing - I'd rather prefered when the video was splited in two, so I can read the presentation during Dr Chuck's lecture.
Thanks!
By Rui H
•Aug 14, 2016
I used to be in one python programming course in school. That course ended by BeautifulSoup. This course just added to where I wanted to continue. Very clear demonstration, I'll definitely finish the following courses in this series. Thank you Dr. Charles!
By K. R J
•Feb 15, 2016
Absolutely great course.
This course has de-mystified the basics of accessing web-data and has atleast helped me realize the power of python to access it.
Faculty, Well delivered ! you have kept the discussions lively and have made me eager to learn more.
By Samuel P J
•Jan 26, 2022
I found this course challenging in several ways, there are some tough bits, perhaps because the materials, the assignments are not all uptodate, or lets say not in sync, I see it as an opportunity to struggle with these 'problems' and get better grounded!
By Max B
•Jun 3, 2020
Pretty challenging assignments so be sure to complete the first two courses before tackling this material. This professor is one of the best instructors I have ever had. He is able to communicate pretty dry and complex topics with optimism and simplicity.
By vipin p
•Aug 15, 2017
It got a bit tricky and I enjoyed it that way. I had to sit with unsolved assignments to solve the problems and I totally am flattered by the magic of programming. It helps you look at problem differently. Thank you Dr Charles Severance and Coursera team.
By Denis M
•Nov 20, 2016
A great, easy to understand course. I would especially recommend the "Introduction to networking" book, where all complicated things about the networks explained simple and rather fun. You can find the link to the book on the week 3.
Thank you, Dr. Chuck!
By Valentin S
•Mar 13, 2016
A bit more difficult than 2 courses of the same speciality placed before, but if you've finished them than it's still quite easy for understanding. I understood how web applications are working after completing it and even used API by my own. Nice course!
By Umar F M
•May 31, 2021
This course is an excellent opportunity to learn new skills in python and how can it be used to access the internet for data. The interconnected lectures and topics along with the excellent teaching techniques made this course very easy for new learners.
By VeeramReddy S T
•Jan 31, 2021
It is an engaging course. It's been a while since I practiced programming and taking this course has helped me to regain the interest I've lost. Dr. Chuck is a great professor, the bonus material he has shared in every week's module is quite encouraging.
By Vellayan S
•Jan 25, 2017
An excellent course that helped me understand how applications exchange information(using XML and JSON) and how we can write python scripts to retrieve such information from web applications , parse and analyse the data and apply our logic on top of them
By R H
•Nov 23, 2020
Another great course by Dr Chuck. Definitely felt like this was a step up in complexity from the previous courses. It provides enough info to allow you to play around and experiment in your own free time and understand the concept of what you are doing.
By Khaled A
•Jan 21, 2020
Dr. Chuck is an excellent instructor and a great human being. The course is superbly constructed and is well organized. I learned many fascinating skills from this course, so thanks so much Dr. Chuck for sharing your knowledge with us. Forever grateful.
By Deividas T
•Oct 9, 2017
Personally, this was the most useful course out of 3 (2 still pending). Great and simple explanation how to get the data using 'backdoor'. The only struggle was to understand tasks "Assignment: Following Links in HTML Using BeautifulSoup" requirements.
By Glen P
•Aug 10, 2019
Overall a very well written course. As the third in the certificate series, this is where the difficulty starts to ramp up a bit and makes you really practice previously learned concepts and think through problems to implement them in an updated form.
By RAJPUT R G S
•Mar 6, 2019
Accessing web data is a great course for a beginner to launch himself in a programming with python. The way Dr. Chunk designed the course is really awesome as it helps everyone to understand the underlying concept and grab it soon. Thank You Dr. Chunk!
By Amanie P
•Nov 18, 2016
This was an excellent follow up on the first two courses in this specialization. So much useful information, and complex ideas broken down in more simple terms that are much easier to digest. Dr. Chuck is amazing! Can't wait to take the next course!
By Warija A
•Nov 27, 2015
One of the best courses that I have taken! Thank you so much for this course. I was out of touch in coding, and wanted to get back to programming and learn a new language like Python. The step-by-step explanation, availability of sample code and the le
By Joshua C
•Jan 20, 2018
Great intro to using python to pull and parse web data. Assignments are now laid out to not give you the answer but to ensure you have the skills to obtain the information you need to complete the task thus requiring additional self-learning. Love it.