Ratings and Reviews for Using Python to Access Web Data

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I could not wait to finish this course of the specialization to write my review. Even though the first two courses in the specialization were pretty straightforward, this one has terrorised me. Now, I understand the difficulty some people might have met in the previous two courses and left mixed reviews. I do not even know where to start with how bad this course was. There has been incomplete information in the online course that you could find in the textbook. But, some written scripts/programs in the textbook are different/changed from the ones in the video. Moreover, the assignments' descriptions are so hard to understand that when we had to use BeautifulSoup to follow links it took me 1 hour to understand what I was asked to do. I am not a native English speaker and I could have worded it better. Then there are other issues such as: - explanations of installing BeatifulSoup, and where, unclear - accessing Google API does not work anymore; how am I supposed to follow along with the example given for how to work with APIs? - Twitter has changed the way you can access their API and now requires 3 tokens, not 4 as in the videos/textbook; I guess I have to look this one up on the internet too, so I can properly grasp the concept - there is missing information in the course/textbook on how to approach the assignments. I do not mind doing research on my own, but how am I supposed to know what to look for if I am not told what I need to finish the assignments? The other issue, and the reason I signed up to Coursera, is that infomation you find online is overwhelming and it seems no one wants to make programming easy for someone that has no clue how to start. I would expect this not to be an issue when using Coursera. And the structure, "written script" and explained before the actual script being written down is so bad that can confuse people so badly.

Great course! Thank you Dr. Chuck! You're the best!

For somone who has been writting code for 7 months for me its way to hard and not inuitive enough. I like baby steps and some of the things we are expected to write I would have had zero clude about. I found myself Googling a lot and even though that sounds great I was really just looking at other code and using parts of it to make it work.

I have been in IT for 30 years, and this course taught me several new things. Thank you, Dr. Chuck!

nice course

Great course for beginners, I am happy to learnt in a professional manner from very experienced & professional teacher.

I only rated courses in the py4e specialization with 5/5 so far, but I'm gonna be honest, this wasn't good. The average student that takes this specialization is not nearly prepared enough to start using Python for accessing web data as they only wrote several programs containing 30 lines of code each. And this showed when the teacher couldn't even give any interesting and challenging 'home exercises' , because he knew the topic was covered at a very,very superficial level and the students are complete beginners. The third course of the specialization should have pushed students into deeper and deeper procedural Python, by building on the first 2 courses until they could make a few small projects by themselves, then go into OOP, make a few object oriented projects, and only then get into web and databases. As always, see you in the next course.

By far the hardest course I had to take.

Sorry but this course is totally impossible to understand without a previous knowledge and the gap bewteen the 2nd course and this one is huge