Ratings and Reviews for Using Python to Access Web Data

The "Using Python to Access Web Data" course on Coursera is an absolute gem for anyone looking to delve into web scraping and data retrieval with Python. Dr. Charles Severance, the instructor, does an outstanding job of breaking down complex concepts into digestible, practical lessons. The course offers a comprehensive introduction to web scraping, utilizing libraries like BeautifulSoup and urllib, making it accessible to beginners while also providing valuable insights for more experienced programmers. The hands-on assignments and quizzes are incredibly beneficial in reinforcing the learning. Overall, this course is a must for anyone interested in harnessing the power of Python for web data manipulation. Highly recommended!

excellent !

greate! very interesting course

Thanks

excelente curso

One of the best teacher of my life!!!

The video lessons often are not as beneficial, as materials on site and slides from: https://www.py4e.com/lessons/servces

The course nicely introduced the participants to Web access, APIs, XML, HTTP, JSON etc,. Highly recommended. One suggestion which I would like to highlight is that more practice sessions must be provided in order for the participants to have better practice and thus the contents we have learned in the course get drilled into our memory as programming and coding is all about practice.

Good class book could've been better

This was my third course within the Python for Everybody Specialization. I must say that I really enjoy Professor Severance's classes --and I started from zero knowledge on coding/python to a point where I'm retrieving and parcing data from the web! However, this course was somehow much more full of "gaps" and "jumps"---diferently from the previous two, in which I could follow what was happening (and undertand what we were doing), here it was more like copy and paste feeling. In many moment the "classes" and explanations was far to difficult to follow --as if we were jumping. What makes this specialization so interesting is tha fact that it takes very complex processes and make it understandable ----but not in this third course. And I don't think its only because certain "coding" "parts" had to be like that---I felt it was rushed and much less carefully delivered. That's my sincere and constructive (I hope) review!