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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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    SM

    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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    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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    Jan 21, 2021

    The course is very shallow, just a brief acquaintance with the matter. Assignments very easy to pass, even with no full understanding of code provided.

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    By Himsindhu B

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    Aug 22, 2020

    Multiple page scrapping is not taught also how to store the scrapped data(particularly image data or text data) into csv or xlms file is not shown.

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    By Jigish P

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    May 26, 2018

    I expect harder/rigorous and more number of assignments. 1-2 assignments are not enough to master anything. Other than that it's good intro course.

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    By Qingyang Z

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    Aug 3, 2020

    Not as good as precedent ones, kind of difficult to understand for people who really start at zero, maybe it should be more precise and contextual

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    By Albert V

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    Oct 4, 2016

    It's too easy. I'd have enjoyed more challenching exercises about RESTful APIs, we have not seen any HTTP mehotd a part of GET and that's a shame.

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    By Walter D C L

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    Jan 11, 2023

    videos prior to the weekly assignment are not a good fit for the assignment. the intructions for the assignment could be more evident/obvious.

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    By Nayana T S

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    Sep 27, 2020

    Thank you Dr.Chuck for the good course but I recommend more explanation for JSON and XML which I faced a little hard to handle and understand.

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    By Akashguna R T

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    May 16, 2019

    No clear cut , detailed explanation you would not know 100% how the program works you have to copy and paste some part of program blindly

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    By Eszter S

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    Aug 5, 2017

    Excellent course for gaining some basics in accessing web data with python. Sometimes I wish there were more deeper explanations provided.

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    By Amit D

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    Nov 9, 2015

    Course is good but the assignment are too basic. I would appreciate if there could be tougher assignments may be not included in rating.

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    By Rishabh M

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    May 14, 2020

    sir charles just taught us very basic.Most of which you need to study urself.One thing he made me believe that its just simple and easy

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    By nikhil k

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    Aug 11, 2017

    wish it had more examples and more things to solve ... although Dr Chuck is awsome , the staff and mentors are prompt in their reply..

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    By James D

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    Sep 18, 2020

    A very good overview but just that an overview. I wish it would have been more involved in order to get a more thorough understanding

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    By Astha K

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    Jun 24, 2020

    It was a good course . Instructor was good enough but i think it was a pretty introductory course on using python to access web data.

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    By Ivan F

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    Dec 8, 2015

    Wey easy for the person with some python experience but the best part is that takes only hours to complete all assignments and quizes

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    By Vasileios D S

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    Sep 7, 2021

    Several modules are introduced but very superficially, because the concepts/protocols to which they relate are not covered in detail

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    By AMMISH T

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    Jun 28, 2020

    Wasn't detailed and couldn't follow where it was heading at..Instructor just covers a part of it and it pretty much feels useless ..

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    By Christopher I

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    Jan 23, 2018

    As most of Severance's courses on Coursera, there is no real challenge or learning curve, these are simply very light introductions.

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    By Steve C

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    Dec 28, 2016

    I learned a few new things on this course. It's not so much about the Python language as about the things you can do with it on-line

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    By SNEHIL S K

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    May 26, 2020

    Meaning of a lot of things was not explained properly and more of mugging up stuff was taught but in overall i enjoyed the course,

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    By Shivam P

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    May 6, 2018

    I feel the course was introduced much earlier than was needed. We could have learnt much simpler stuffs such as Numpy and Tkinter.

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    By Mutelo M

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    Oct 20, 2016

    its a good course .However i found it difficult since it requires you to understand how the internet and internet application work

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    By Andres R

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    Dec 17, 2022

    Starting by the third week, the explanations had a lot to improve, I had to check in other places in order to finish the exercise

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    By Prashant K

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    Jul 5, 2020

    This course could have been more detailed and less paced. Students are not given enough time and practice to grasp new concepts.

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    Mar 17, 2018

    The background knowledge for some of the assignments was not properly covered in the lectures. Had to rely heavily on the forum.

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