Extreme Alexa Skills Dev: Mastering Templates and Back-End

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Coming Soon – Course Update

Lecture 2: Welcome to the course

Lecture 3: Course Overview

Chapter 2: Tooling

Lecture 1: Recommended Tools Introduction

Lecture 2: Tools Instructions

Lecture 3: Accounts

Lecture 4: CLI Tools

Lecture 5: Other Tools

Lecture 6: ASK/AWS CLI

Lecture 7: Demo: ASK/AWS CLI

Chapter 3: Custom Templates

Lecture 1: Introduction to Custom Templates

Lecture 2: Why Use Custom Templates

Lecture 3: Template Anatomy

Lecture 4: Custom Template Creation Process

Chapter 4: Creating Custom Skill Templates from Scratch

Lecture 1: Creating the template and adding the structure

Lecture 2: Building out the Skill Manifest

Lecture 3: Adding a simple Interaction Model

Lecture 4: Add Lambda Function structure

Lecture 5: Configure Typescript

Lecture 6: Compile Typescript

Chapter 5: Write Boilerplate Skill Code

Lecture 1: Write the Skill Initialization Code

Lecture 2: Write the Cancel Intent Handler

Lecture 3: Write the Fallback Intent Handler

Lecture 4: Write the Help Intent Handler

Lecture 5: Write the Stop Intent Handler

Lecture 6: Write the Custom Error Handler

Lecture 7: Write the Session Ended Handler

Lecture 8: Write the Launch Request Handler

Lecture 9: Write the Hello Handler

Lecture 10: Register the handlers

Chapter 6: Adding Speech Constructs

Lecture 1: About Speech Constructs in the Custom Template

Lecture 2: Add speech enumerations

Lecture 3: Add the speech library

Lecture 4: Build out the main speech class

Lecture 5: Add the speech helper service

Lecture 6: Implement the speech construct in the intent handlers

Chapter 7: Adding Runtime Constructs

Lecture 1: About Runtime Constructs in the Custom Skill Template

Lecture 2: Adding the runtime constructs

Lecture 3: Write a runtime state service

Lecture 4: Implement runtime state constructs

Chapter 8: Section 8: Adding Storage Constructs

Lecture 1: About Storage Constructs in the Custom Template

Lecture 2: Add the storage service

Lecture 3: Add method for retrieving specific attributes

Lecture 4: Add method to sync persistent attributes to the session

Lecture 5: Add method to sync session and persistent attributes

Lecture 6: Add method to sync and persist both session and persistent attributes

Lecture 7: Implement methods of the storage service

Chapter 9: Adding Default Attribute Schemas

Lecture 1: About Default Attributes

Lecture 2: Adding a default profile attribute

Lecture 3: Adding default attributes at run time

Chapter 10: Adding Request and Response Interceptors

Lecture 1: About Request and Response Interceptors

Lecture 2: Adding and registering a global request interceptor

Lecture 3: Adding and registering a global response interceptor

Chapter 11: Extra Tips: Add Other Default Services

Lecture 1: About the Alexa ISP service and the Alexa API service

Lecture 2: Adding the Alexa ISP Service

Lecture 3: Adding the Alexa API Service

Chapter 12: Infrastructure

Lecture 1: Infrastructure Introduction

Lecture 2: Using the Custom Template

Lecture 3: Create and configure a new skill based on the custom template

Lecture 4: Examine the CloudFormation Template and Deploy

Lecture 5: Deploy the skill for the first time to the Amazon Developer Console

Chapter 13: Automated Workflow

Lecture 1: About automated skill development workflow

Lecture 2: Automated updates and deployment

Chapter 14: Conclusion

Lecture 1: Thank You