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    Learner Reviews & Feedback for Using Python to Access Web Data by University of Michigan

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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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    Mar 4, 2016

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    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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    Jun 19, 2020

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    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.

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    Feb 20, 2021

    The course gives good start to python programming. Wanted little extra knowledge on the data structures in python but that maybe a story in some other python course.

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    May 10, 2022

    I have learnt many new things. Assignments are really helpful in implementing the concepts learnt and recalling the things learnt in previous courses.

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    Apr 15, 2022

    This is one of the most useful courses I passed in Coursera. It gives you enough information to get the job done. Not too much and not too little.

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    By Nicole M

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    May 3, 2022

    All around, not as easy as previous courses, but the reference material and quizes/assignments were interesting and helpful.

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    By Abdullah H

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    May 3, 2022

    Wonderful Course on Web access with python. I must admire the wonderful learning skills of Dr. Chuck

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    By Alejandro V R

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    Apr 18, 2022

    this course scaled up my ability with python and my understanding of the basics

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    May 6, 2022

    Very beautiful and probably the toughest one till now in the 5 series

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    By Prajanand k

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    Jan 30, 2021

    Using Python to Access Web Data of good coursed of python skil

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    By Elmer R M

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    Apr 19, 2022

    Very good for start learning how to access data using Python

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    Apr 30, 2022

    very usefull ,requier hard work,very intersting

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    Apr 29, 2022

    estupendo para seguir profundizando en python.

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    Apr 14, 2022

    This Course Is Absolutely Outstanding

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    By Александр В

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    May 10, 2022

    Хороший курс, Спасибо

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    By Ayush B

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    Apr 11, 2022

    wonderful course

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    By Nima f

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    Apr 6, 2022

    Very Good

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    May 8, 2022

    so happy

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    By Navya M

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    Apr 20, 2022

    good

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    Apr 13, 2022

    good

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    By Wisa L

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    Apr 8, 2022

    GOOD

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    Apr 8, 2022

    nice

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    By Ayatullah K

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    Nov 19, 2020

    The first two courses needed to completed this course successfully.

    I have previous experienced of programming with c++ and javascript. So this wasn't

    difficult to me. However, I have learned a lot of about web services. How to retrieve

    web data with python and manipulate them. From week 1 to week 4 was, how can you

    retrieve web pages, how to request a server and get back web data using some python

    libraries like urllib(a python library to retrieve web page). Overall, for the assignments

    you have to know programming logic a little bit. After retrieve web pages you need to work

    with data. So you have to know conditon, loop, list, dict etc. All the assignments of this

    course is calculate sum or count of a list of data.

    The last two weeks you will get familiar with xml and json. These two is the communication system for

    service provider and consumer. How easy they communicate and exchange their data.

    It uses for the service oriented approach mostly.

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    By Leonoor K

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    Aug 11, 2022

    Solid course, just like the first two. Level clearly increases from the basics, you gotta use everything you've learned so far. A shame that some of the google API content discussed has become less relevant/useful now that google has moved the data behind a paywall.

    4 instead of 5 because of unclear discussion of "REST" in the final week. It isn't discussed in the actual lecture videos or discussed in the book, yet is brought up in the quiz. Repeated confused questions in the the discussion board (plenty of which are years old at this point) have not changed this.

    A big shame that the staff in the discussion often seems frustrated with the students, making their answers less than helpful, even rude. Perhaps the team is too small or the workload to heavy? Given the price of coursera I would expect better.

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    By Ana B

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    May 26, 2023

    I love Dr Severance and enjoyed the two previous courses, but in this third one I found the assignments particularly challenging with some disconnection between the examples in the slides and what was expected from our side. In any case, I don't want to discourage anyone from taking these courses because I still find they are fantastic.

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    By Agustín D L S

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    May 7, 2023

    Really good course. I learnt a lot of new things.

    Just a comment: The second assigment in which you need to use the Beatiful Soup library seems to be very challenger according to what you see in the lectures. Maybe you should add a copple additional lessons on that topic to better explain how it works.

    Thanks and regards.

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    By Praise B

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    Nov 17, 2022

    I feel like it was rushed and some things were not properly explained to us(import statement, beautifulsoup, etc, but that's what youtube is for, right? ) it is a good course and I'm glad i took part in it, Thank you Coursera and Thank you Dr Chuck

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