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Build Your Own Chatbots

Course Number
CB0101EN
Classes Start
Any time, Self-paced
Estimated Effort
4 hours
Audience
Anyone interested in building chatbots.
Course Level
Beginner
Language
English
Badge Earned
Build Your Own Chatbot

About This Course

This chatbot course provides a practical introduction that will teach you everything you need to know to plan, build, and deploy your first chatbot. Leveraging the cognitive computing power of Watson Conversation, you will be able to design your own chatbot without the need to write any code. You'll also learn how to quickly deploy your chatbot on WordPress-based sites. If you want to learn how to create virtual assistants — and perhaps create one for your own business — this free chatbot course is for you.

Course Syllabus

Module 1 - Introduction to Chatbots

What are chatbots?
Emergence of Messengers and Cognitive Computing
Who are chatbots for?
The chatbot we're going to build

Module 2 - Introduction to Watson Conversation

Watson Conversation components
Intents
Entities
Dialog
DO and DO NOT of dialog design

Module 3 - Building the Flower Shop Chatbot

Creating a workspace
Defining intents
Defining entities
Creating the dialog
Trying out our Chatbot
Iteratively improving the Chatbot

Module 4 - Deploying Our Chatbot on WordPress

Introduction to the WordPress plugin
Installing the plugin
Configuring the settings
Testing our Chatbot

Recommended skills prior to taking this course

None

Grading scheme

The minimum passing mark for the course is 70%, where the review questions are worth 50% and the final exam is worth 50% of the course mark.
You have 1 attempt to take the exam with multiple attempts per question.

Requirements

None

Course Staff

Antonio Cangiano

Antonio is a Software Developer and Technical Evangelist with IBM. A published author with Wrox and The Pragmatic Bookshelf, he enjoys web programming, cutting edge technologies, and technical marketing. He is the Chief Cognitive Computing Evangelist for Cognitive Class.