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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.

    AH

    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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    By taoheed a

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    Aug 23, 2019

    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 Subin J

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    Mar 29, 2017

    The course is very good. However the course covers only the basics of how to use python to access web data. It would have been good to add an assignment to use REST APIs in the real world scenario.

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    By mohamed m f

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    Apr 16, 2019

    need to write code step by step not to get usable code and explain it that's not interesting , writing the code from scratch is really exciting so please improve the course to be more enthusiastic .

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    By Kyle R

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    Nov 27, 2016

    Challenging assignments, great teaching. I don't understand half of what these computer nerds are talking about, but I am figuring out how to complete their assignments. I must be learning something.

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    By madan p

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    Apr 8, 2016

    This course is really very useful.The effort given by Dr.Chuck is very appriciateable and this course is very interesting as well because many great programmer told their history of discovered thing.

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    By Humberto O

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    Jan 29, 2016

    Dr. Chuck is so skilled at teaching. His teaching style and presentations are easy to follow. The class is not as challenging as other Python courses, but it's a great step to learning Python well.

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    By URK21CS7046 K M

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    Mar 25, 2022

    The topics covered in this are very clear but not gone in much depth. If you want to get started this is a perfect course and if you are intermediate you won't get anything new to be learnt here...

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    By Yanisa D

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    May 18, 2023

    It was a nice course and instructor also explained very well. However, for the final week of learning, the content are quite confused. It would be better if give some more example or explanation.

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    By 林祐任

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    Aug 31, 2020

    The course, which is the third course in Python for Everybody, is concise as the previous ones. However, for those who are not familiar with the Internet, the course seems to jump too fast a bit.

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    By Sourabh D

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    Aug 27, 2019

    Somewhat lacks details. I guess the topics covered is vast compared to the time frame for the course. Anyway, I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude to Dr Chuck for the amazing contents.

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    By Saily T

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    Sep 6, 2018

    This course is really nice helpful.

    Week 6, SOA explanation PPT is really nice .

    In week 5 quiz contain detail questions that are not explained ,I didn't find then in book.

    overall Course was good.

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    By Sha L

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    Dec 1, 2016

    It's a good course, very well organized, useful and with great interviews of pioneers of the Internet. Not very challenging though for someone who has a few years programming experience with C++

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    By Warren Y B

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    May 1, 2023

    Muy buen curso aunque un poco complicado al usar JSON y XML. Creo que esa parte debió tener mas tiempo de enseñanza ya que es casi imposible crear un código sin tener a mano un ejemplo ya hecho

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    By Alice W

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    Nov 9, 2020

    Very good, and the material was challenging to learn. It felt like an overall look of XML, HTML, and JSON mixed with Python. I liked it, but some of the codes or instructions may need updating.

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    By Udbhav J

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    Sep 9, 2017

    Knowledge of Internet Architecture would be very helpful before beginning this course. Its a decent course but being a complete novice, I found myself lost completely on more than one occasion.

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    By HAROLD D C R

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    Jun 11, 2021

    No me gusto que para el trabajo del uso del geoapi se debiera usar literalmente el mismo codigo, casi me paso igual con el desarrollo del BeautifulSoup, pero el profe es de lo mejor la verdad

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    By Todd M

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    Feb 1, 2020

    XML got a bit difficult, but its understandable since JSON is becoming so prevalent. Need a better animation for service applications. Current one is boring compared to how Dr. Chuck explains.

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    By BHAVIK K

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    Jan 1, 2020

    Very Good course by Dr. chuck. It has encourage me to learn more deeper in the field of web scrapping and data science. Some part was boring but overall course provides great value. Thank you!

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    By Kunyang X

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    Feb 3, 2018

    The lecturer is fabulous. However, I think the assignment should be as hard as the actual one in university. In such difficulty, we would fully remember and understand how to use what we know.

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    By Rohan K

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    Jun 25, 2017

    The assignments were a bit easy as most of the code is given in the examples. But overall a very nice course, many topics covered, I am definitely more confident about my skills in python now.

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    By jenniferhu

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    Jun 8, 2017

    It's great materials but the mentor or teaching staff is not helping a lot. They should emphasize on the key point instead of talking indirectly all the time. I'm sorry but this is how I feel.

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    By John E C R

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    Oct 5, 2022

    I've learned a lot of new content about hot to apply python for accessing to web data, although some content, specially related with APIs is outdated and doesn't work as shown in the videos.

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    By PRATIK B

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    May 31, 2020

    Quite difficult compared to the first 2 courses and I had difficulty in understanding these concepts as clearly as the earlier ones. However, Dr.Charles Severence seems to be a great teacher.

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    By Ioannis R

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    Mar 19, 2021

    Useful and once again very well taught. The coding covered is quite different to what was taught in the previous modules and some expressions are not intuitive additions to prior knowledge.

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