Alexa Skills Kit: Practical Chatbot Development

Develop practical Alexa Skills using the Alexa Skills Kit (ASK). Interacting with DynamoDB and other AWS Services.

Created by: Nathan Glover
Full Stack Software Engineer & Technology Enthusiast

What Will I 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
• JavaScript 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 JavaScript would help, but not required

Target audience

• Hobbyists looking to build Chatbots in the form of Alexa Skills for various home projects
• Enterprise Developers looking to unlock more potential from their business data and expose it over a Chatbot
• Beginners to the Personal Assistant / Chatbot space, looking to understand what is required to build helpful Bots.