Ratings and Reviews for Using Python to Access Web Data

Thank you very much, I benefited and enjoyed it

Very good inroduction to Python regex, web data and useful libraries like BeautifulSoup. Useful step up in complexity from the previous module.

The course was a bit challenging but the professor made learning so interesting . Thank you Dr Chuck.

Excellent course, lectures and course materials were presented well and in order. Material does get progressively harder and can seem to be information overload if you don't stop and percolate.

TL, dr: Flawed course in comparison to the first two ones. The course introduces new concepts, more or less technical to understand what's going on when you try to access web data from an external application, such as a programming language. If you're new to programming like myself, you could feel a bit overwhelmed at times, but with a little patience and dedication, you end up understanding the whole process and why it could be useful to use code to access web data. The instructor is helpful and does a good job in this part. However, I have two great objections to the course: The first one is that there is no explanations about libraries and modules. The course relies heavily in them not only for the assignments but for the lectures. If the specialization claims to be for any person without programming language but don't include any explanation about these features, is missing a crucial part for the students to know what they're doing. And sorry but just hearing the instructor says 'type this and it will work' is not a valid explanation, at least for me. The second one is about the course structure. Because it explains so many new concepts, some of them are treated only at surface level, without providing a deep explanation. I wouldn't have minded do two or three more weeks or even an additional course if this would have given a better understanding of concepts such XML, sockets, REST architecture or JSON. In addition to this, at times some code are explained after need it to do previous assignments so at not few times, I ended up looking for solution on the internet or copy/paste the code provided in the assignment because I couldn't understand what I was doing. On a side note, although I enjoyed week 6 the most, the videos about APIs usage must be reviewed. Google geocoding requires an API key now so when you type the code and try to access data, it returns an error. The one about Twitter API is directly useless in which you need a Twitter account (I don't have one and don't have plans to have it in the future) to follow the lecture.

I would recommend the "Using Python to Access Web Data" course by Dr. Chuck , as it is a great way to learn how to use Python for web scraping and accessing web data in a simple and practical way.

Learned a lot of stuffs, although lil bit disappointed because i felt last few concepts like BeautifulSoup and APis were rushed. I hope that is taken care of , Apart from that Dr-chuck killing it as usual. Can't wait to finish the last 2 courses of py4e specialization. See you soon chuck. LOVE from INDIA

The course was very informative, and Dr Charles Severance is an excellent teacher, but will it be enough for me to at least get a job and not die due to unemployment?

Really Good Course! I loved it

Overall, I do really like the course. However, there have been a few instances where I feel like some of the material was not adequately covered/failed to be mentioned in the lectures. It would be nice to have a bit more information regarding the intricacies of the code we are utilizing instead of being expected to simply accept what is.