Ratings and Reviews for Using Python to Access Web Data

Excellent introduction into accessing and scraping web data with Python. Professor Chuck is very good at explaining things and the code snippets provided were just enough to get you started on your own. Previous experience in Python is required. If you are coming from the first four Python for Everyone courses, you will find this one a noticeable step up in difficulty. This course uses Python 2 but I personally did all the code in Python 3 – it's possible, but be prepared to make changes and look up differences in modules between 2 and 3. My co-students were also really helpful on the forums, although the rule not to post your source code makes trouble shooting difficult and laborious. The one thing I found missing was the professor instructing and engaging you more on how to read and make use of documentation. It's a core skill for a programmer! With all the Python modules used in this course (Beautiful Soup, ET, XML, JSON) you are bound to come across situations where reading the documentation will open up many new pathways and enhance your understanding. All in all a fun learning experience. Would recommend. A big thank you to Dr. Chuck & all the visible and invisible staff members who made it possible.

The course is short but so much fun! I learned a lot from the course material as well as the interviews with those big names in CS. Great job, Dr Chuck!

Very good! :)

Dr Chuck rock the MOOC ball, yes he does. This course is fantastic to get a hand on what actually is to "connect over the internet". Do it!

It was amazing course and easy to understand at the same time. Topics cover all the basics . I can humbly offer extra non-mandatory lectures and assignments(A bit harder and taking more effort to complete) for non-beginner students.

Perfect!!

Great style of teaching and the material is excellent, a great introduction for users of data (esp external data and through API's)

Very interesting.

I learn this class ,the exercise is very easy and do not takes pain to try for it. Just so easy

Great course(series) for any beginner willing to put in a decent amount of work; you reap what you sow.