Learning Path: Bots: Real-World Bots With The Bot Framework

Unlock the techniques to build amazing bots with the Bot Framework

What you'll learn

Understand the basics of Bot

Explore the Microsoft Bot Framework

Code your own bot

Learn to use the Bot Emulator for debugging

Add conversational logic using LUIS

Deploy your bots to various channels

Requirements

No prior knowledge of the Bot Framework is needed as the Learning Path covers concepts from scratch.

Basic knowledge of Azure would be beneficial.

Description

Bots are the latest trend these days and has become part of our daily lives. Today's bots can help us find restaurants, order food, shop for clothes, and so on. The Microsoft Bot Framework provides just what you need to build and connect intelligent bots that interact naturally wherever your users are talking. Startups such as Slack have built a billion dollar business around bots. So, if you're interested to know how to build such cool bots, then this Learning Path is for you.


Packt’s Video Learning Paths are a series of individual video products put together in a logical and stepwise manner such that each video builds on the skills learned in the video before it.



The highlights of this Learning Path are:






Build user-friendly bots
Understand LUIS and deploy bots to different channels



Let's take a quick look at your learning journey. This Learning Path will teach you everything you need to know in order to build interactive and conversational bots using solid and well tested APIs. Starting with the basics of the Bot Framework, you will dive deeper into the various aspects of building more advanced conversational agents. Then you will learn how to add conversational logic to a bot by using LUIS. You will also explore the LUIS user interface and build a demo bot using LUIS. Finally, you will learn to publish your bot to Azure as well as deploy them on different channels.






By the end of this Learning Path, you will be able to build your own bots with Microsoft’s Bot Framework.









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Overview

Section 1: Understanding Bot Framework

Lecture 1 The Course Overview

Lecture 2 What Are Bots?

Lecture 3 Framework Basics

Lecture 4 Visual Studio Bot Template

Lecture 5 Hello World Bot

Lecture 6 The Bot Emulator

Lecture 7 Introduction to Dialogs

Lecture 8 Overview of Dialogs

Lecture 9 Bot States

Lecture 10 Dialogs in Practice

Lecture 11 Introduction to FormFlow

Lecture 12 FormFlow Basics

Lecture 13 FormFlow Dialog

Lecture 14 Creating a FormFlow Demo Bot

Section 2: Building with Bot Framework

Lecture 15 The Course Overview

Lecture 16 Cognitive Services and LUIS

Lecture 17 LUIS Basics

Lecture 18 LUIS User Interface

Lecture 19 Setting Up Visual Studio

Lecture 20 Demonstrating Bot Using LUIS

Lecture 21 Publishing to Azure

Lecture 22 Deploying to Skype

Lecture 23 Publishing to Facebook Messenger

Lecture 24 Customizing Messages for Facebook Messenger

Lecture 25 Configuring LUIS

Lecture 26 Building the Bot Using the Microsoft Bot Framework

Lecture 27 Publishing to Facebook Messenger

Developers who want to create a new service with a great bot interface or enable an existing service with a great bot interface.