![]() ![]() I realized that the process of troubleshooting and fixing the bugs in your code isn’t intuitive yet to anyone who hasn’t spent a long time learning to code already. Their code “wouldn’t work” and they’d feel hopelessly stuck pretty quickly. Students would begin to stumble when they’d go out on their own. I really tried to hold students’ hands through all of the class material, writing the simplest possible code, explaining things line by line as I went, and intentionally running into common mistakes to show them how to power through.īut even with all of that assistance, the real world is a lot messier. I couldn’t expect students to know what a for-loop is or how to spot syntax errors in their text editors. ![]() So, when I was making the material and lessons for the course, I had to keep this in the front of mind. Many people who were looking to learn web scraping had never coded before. This past summer, I launched a web scraping class targeted at total beginners.Īfter talking to a lot of people who were having web scraping challenges over the past few years, I realized that many of them weren’t coders and didn’t have any technical backgrounds.
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