Alexa Skills Kit: Practical Chatbot Development
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Created by: Nathan Glover

Develop practical Alexa Skills using the Alexa Skills Kit (ASK). Interacting with DynamoDB and other AWS Services. What you'll learn

Alexa Skills Kit (ASK) and how to build chatbots entirely as code
Alexa Skills, you'll learn about Intents, Utterances, Custom slots and how everything comes together to build an effective Chatbot
DynamoDB Persistance of Attributes, you'll learn how to save session state for your users and have Alexa remember and recall things about people using the Skill
jаvascript and NPM development practices, you'll learn how to break down big blocks of code into more manageable structures

Requirements

Access to a computer (Windows, MacOS, Linux)
Amazon AWS Account (Free Tier)
Basic understanding of programming languages like jаvascript would help, but not required

Description

AWS Alexa, Google Home and other voice assistant devices are becoming more and more common in our interconnected world. The tech landscape rewards developers who are on the leading edge of new trends, and Alexa Skills Kit (ASK) is one of the most supported and recognised methods of developing consumer and commercial chatbots.

This course is written with the very latest and best development standards in mind. You'll learn a number of key things that will help you succeed in this fast moving field of technology.

Alexa Skill Creation (UI) - We'll develop an understanding of how Alexa Skills can be created and managed via the web interface

Ask Skills Kit (CLI) - Once we have a firm understanding, we'll write our Skills entirely as code and deploy them using ONE command!

DynamoDB - Data will be stored and retrieved from an instance of DynamoDB that we'll create and manage from code as well.

DynamoDB Persistence - Using the DynamoDB persistence adaptor in Alexa Skill Kit we'll save and retrieve user attributes to manage state between the Alexa skill life-cycle