Building Apps Using Amazon's Alexa and Lex

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: You, This Course and Us

Lecture 2: Source Code and PDFs

Chapter 2: Alexa Basics: Eco-system and Skill Concepts

Lecture 1: Introducing Alexa

Lecture 2: Evolution Of Human Computer Interaction And Voice Interfaces

Lecture 3: Prereqs And Course Overview

Lecture 4: Alexa, Echo And AWS

Lecture 5: Skill Concepts: Invocations, Utterances and Intents

Lecture 6: Tools and Platforms: AWS, Amazon Developer Console and Echosim.io

Lecture 7: Types Of Skills

Chapter 3: Build a Basic Alexa Skill

Lecture 1: Overview Of The Stock Market Tracker

Lecture 2: Utterance-Intent Mapping

Lecture 3: Financial Data From AlphaVantage

Lecture 4: Setup And Configure An Alexa Skill

Lecture 5: AWS Lambdas

Lecture 6: Link the Alexa Skill with the Lambda Function

Lecture 7: Set up and Test Lambda Code

Lecture 8: Code And Test the Launch Request

Lecture 9: Code And Test the Intent Request

Lecture 10: Handle Help And Stop Intents

Lecture 11: Test Using Echosim.io

Chapter 4: Multi-turn Dialogs for Rich Conversation

Lecture 1: Slots As Request Configuration Parameters

Lecture 2: Slots, Prompts And Utterances

Lecture 3: Financial Data From Intrinio

Lecture 4: What Exactly are Slots?

Lecture 5: Configure the Dialog Model

Lecture 6: Handle Start, End and Launch Requests

Lecture 7: Handle the GetStockInfo Intent

Lecture 8: Handle Help, Stop and Cancel Intents

Lecture 9: Testing With Echosim.io

Chapter 5: Persist State Across Sessions

Lecture 1: Remember Data Across Sessions

Lecture 2: Create A Dynamo DB Table

Lecture 3: Configure Full Access To Dynamo DB from Lambda

Lecture 4: Handle Start, End and Launch Requests

Lecture 5: Handle Add, Remove And List Stock Intents

Lecture 6: Test Using Echosim.io

Chapter 6: Build a Flash Briefing Skill

Lecture 1: Understanding Flash Briefing Skills

Lecture 2: Set Up A Twitter RSS Feed

Lecture 3: Set Up A Flash Briefing Skill

Chapter 7: Introducing Lex

Lecture 1: Course Outline

Lecture 2: Signing in to AWS

Lecture 3: Sample Bots

Lecture 4: Custom Bots and IAM

Lecture 5: Complete Creating Your First Bot

Chapter 8: Interaction Models in Amazon Lex

Lecture 1: Module Outline

Lecture 2: Creating Intents

Lecture 3: Slot Types

Lecture 4: Slots

Lecture 5: Slot Properties

Lecture 6: Sample Utterances

Lecture 7: Confirmations

Lecture 8: Configuring the Bot

Lecture 9: Test: Ordering Coke

Lecture 10: Test: Ordering Pizza (Fail)

Lecture 11: Test: Ordering Pizza (Success)

Lecture 12: Cleaning up Resources

Chapter 9: Fulfilment Models in Amazon Lex

Lecture 1: Module Outline

Lecture 2: Weather Bot

Lecture 3: Built In Slot Types

Lecture 4: Setting Up a Weather Bot

Lecture 5: Lambda Intro

Lecture 6: Lambda Blueprint

Lecture 7: The Big Picture: Code

Lecture 8: Lambda Handler

Lecture 9: Constructing a Response

Lecture 10: Configuring an AWS Lambda

Lecture 11: Lex Lambda Configuration

Lecture 12: Open Weather API

Lecture 13: Invoking the Open Weather API

Lecture 14: Importing External Libraries to an AWS Lambda

Lecture 15: Versions, Aliases And Publishing

Chapter 10: Third-party Apps: Chatbots in Slack

Lecture 1: Module Outline

Lecture 2: Creating A Slack Application

Lecture 3: Activating Lex Integration

Lecture 4: Configuring A Stack App

Lecture 5: Testing the Slack Bot