At a Glance

Learn how to build chatbots without having to write any code by leveraging Watson Assistant. Then deploy your chatbot to a real site in less than five minutes.

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 Assistant, 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?
Chatbots are trending
Leader in the Industry
Lab 1: Create an instance of Watson Assistant
Quizzes

Module 2: Working with Intents

How chatbots work
Understanding Intents
Lab 2: Create Dialog Skill and Intents
Lab 3: Import Intents
Quizzes

Module 3: Working with Entities

Understanding Entities
Lab 4: Create Entities
Lab 5: Import and Export Entities
Quizzes

Module 4: Defining the Dialog

Putting it all together
Building user-friendly chatbots
Lab 6: Implement the Dialog
Lab 7: Define Domain-Specific Intents
Quizzes

Module 5: Deploying your Chatbot

Deploying to a WordPress site
Lab 8 - Add a preview and retrieve your credentials
Lab 9: Deploy your Chatbot
Quizzes

Module 6: Advanced concepts – Part 1

Working with Context Variables and Slots
Lab 10: Explore Context Variables
Lab 11: Master Slots
Quizzes

Module 7: Advanced concepts – Part 2

Understanding Digressions
Lab 12: Enable Digressions
Lab 13: Get to know the Analytics tab
Lab 14: Create your own Chatbot
Watson Assistant in the Private Cloud
Quizzes

Summary

Conclusion
IBM Offer for Chatbot makers
Final Exam

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.

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.

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Build Your Own Chatbot