Bot Building Basics

About this course

This course will not only teach you the basics about bots, it will also show you how to make your own bot using NO CODE on the Microsoft Bot Framework.  Bots are becoming more ubiquitous to our daily internet lives.  There is hardly a place you can go online without interacting with a bot, whether you knew it or not. And there are different types of bots who do various kinds of things. From indexing web pages to finding information even to book airplane flights. To this point, bots were usually created by programmers. And the cost to make them was high.  The everyday person could not use them for their purposes.  With this course, you will learn about the different types of bots, why they exist, along with what they do. All in a very easy to understand (no techspeak, I promise) format with lectures, demonstrations, and step-by-step instructions. We will use the Microsoft Bot Framework to build our very own bot. And we will connect the bot to the outside world through SMS text messaging.  So, you will be able to share your bot with other people! This course will also give you some ideas and examples of other types of bots that you may wish to create afterward. If you are looking to learn about bots, build a bot or see examples of bots working on the internet, then this course is for you.

Course objectives

• to teach participants about different types of bots
• to demonstrate how to build a bot without programming
• to provide examples and ideas for further bot creation