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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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AH

Mar 3, 2016

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!

SM

Jun 18, 2020

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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The third part of the course is a good introduction to the capability of Python in writing search codes and in scraping the web and other applications. Assignments are more difficult to tackle than in the previous two courses probably because the materials needed to solve them were either not well explained or were explained in later lessons. For example, the instruction for a particular assignment gave a starting sample code that was claimed to be the closest to the code to do the assignment, a statement that turned out to be wrong. It was not close to it at all. This area should be looked into for future learners. The learners' minds should be prepared from the beginning that there might be a need to go outside the course materials to tackle some assignments.

Overall, again, the course is an excellent introduction to what Python can do in search programs using regular expressions and in scraping the web and other applications. To be very good at these topics, like any other courses, learners will need extensive practice on their own, as most of the assignments were completed through a hand-holding technique using the provided sample codes. 

Overall, I am happy with what I am learning in python programming, and perhaps, I would use this new knowledge to work as a web developer someday. Thank you, Dr Charles, University of Michigan, and Coursera. Keep up the good work of providing affordable and accessible education.