Ratings and Reviews for Using Python to Access Web Data

I really enjoyed this course and Dr. Chuck. Can't wait for the next one.

Course is thoughtfully put together. The assigned work is sufficiently hard for a class at this level, and the teacher provides great resources to review the class material.

This is the second class I have taken with professor Charles Severance on Coursera. Love the flexible schedule and clear lectures/assignments. Thanks a lot professor Charles Severance.

great course! I am seasoned programmer and learned a lot about python in this class

Thanks so much Chuck, I've learnt so much through the Python courses. Made me fall in love with Python.

I found this course very useful and learnt how use of regular expressions and later used them to parse HTML pages to look at various tags and content. The use of urllib and BeautifulSoup make my life easier to scrape webpages. Finally, I learnt how to parse XML and JSON. Again, Thank you Dr Chuck and your team for creating such an interesting and exiting course. I have thoroughly enjoyed this.

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!