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Programming Applications with Python: Libraries and Web Scraping 

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Programming Applications with Python: Libraries and Web Scraping
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Duration

4 weeks

Total fee

900

Mode of learning

Online

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Programming Applications with Python: Libraries and Web Scraping
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Highlights

  • Duration 4 weeks
  • Weekly study 4 hours
  • 100% online Learn at your own pace
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Programming Applications with Python: Libraries and Web Scraping
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  • This course will continue the training you've received so far, and introduce you to the popular Requests library in Python. You'll study how to install the Requests library and get to know how it works.
  • Learning via videos, interactive exercises, and quizzes, you'll also explore what HTTP requests are and what each of the status codes in HTTP mean.
  • You'll examine performing error handling "one of the most crucial aspects of software development" before going on to learn the basics of web scraping.
  • Explore how common libraries and tools can be used to perform web scraping, and learn how web scraping works in practice and its pros and cons.
  • Using Beautiful-Soup in Python program to perform web scraping, you'll emerge with a firm understanding of the library, able to perform basic web scraping for your next project.
  • Github is a world-leading development platform, and you'll discover the ins and outs of application programming with Python.
  • You'll finish the
  • with a string of in-demand skills you can take to the software development job market "or apply to your current role" with confidence.
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Programming Applications with Python: Libraries and Web Scraping
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FutureLearn 
Curriculum

Working With APIs

Welcome to the course!

Python libraries for networking

HTTP Requests

Wrap-up

JSON, error handling, and exceptions

Introduction

HTTP requests

Error handling

Wrap-up

Web scraping

Introduction

Introducing web scraping

Web Scraping libraries

Wrap-up

Web scraping libraries and more

Introduction

Introducing BeautifulSoup

Pros and cons of web scraping

Wrap-up

Graded Course Test

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