Ratings and Reviews for Using Python to Access Web Data

Great course! Learnt a lot and finally feel that I am on a highway to master Python!

Thanks Dr. Chuck!! I feel so much more comfortable about web services & many things I didn't know

As an experienced programmer, I am unimpressed. The assignments cover a good set of tools; web i/o. I would introduce classes before getting into web i/o; this would emphasize critical coding habits of productive programmers: modularity and reusability. Also, variables and files are poorly named. Comments are lacking. The exercises don't ask students to program; they ask students to tweak (at most) the example programs. Students are instructed to disable security features without sufficient discussion of the risks involved. Overall, the presentation looks rushed and unpolished. Code looks like it was hobbled together until it worked and never edited for clarity. If someone I cared about wanted examples of good programming, I would tell them to avoid this.

The sample code for week 4 was misleading and led to some un needed frustration. Otherwise another great course.

The assignments are becoming more and more difficult. But very rewarding when you finally get the solution. It's very important to understand every line of code from the previous chapters. But again, very well explained (also by the assistants in the discussion forum)

It was a great course. You get a good view about Web Data Handling with PYTHON

Excellent, the best python course and teacher, very well explained. Thank you, keep the good job.

Great course, challenging enough to keep me interested. Programming for using Google APIs is awesome.

I love this course. I learned a lot of things about json, using of APIs.

The course (and specialization) started out well, but by the end way too many things are being introduced before the student (me) has really mastered Python.