Introduction to Bots Crash

Course
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Introduction to Bots Crash

Course

What is a bot? Why does everyone want one? How do they work?
How fast can I build one? Join the hype and get answer to all of
these questions in this course. We will teach you how to build your
own chatbot from scratch using regular programming languages.

Lectures in English, but mentors can speak to students in Spanish

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Location
Centro de Diseño, Cine y Televisión
Av. Constituyentes 455, Ciudad de México.

When you arrive, let reception know you are here for the Wizeline AI
Academy. Please bring an ID with you. See you at the entrance, otherwise
they will guide you to the 6th floor for the course.

What to bring
• Laptop
• Laptop power charger

Before the Course

For the crash course we're asking you to bring your environment setup for
running web applications in whatever programming/scripting language you
prefer. The crash course will be implemented using Javascript in NodeJS
> 6, however there will be mentors that can help you with a wide variety of
languages if you'd rather take that road.

Pre-requisites
• Must be fluent in English
• Must be a software engineer currently
• Knows how to run a server in their language
• Basic knowledge in Web services
• Own your own laptop with dev environment set up, bring it to class
• Text Editor or IDE (Sublime, Atom, Vim,Visual Studio, WebStorm, etc)
• NodeJS + Express / Web Server Installed (You are free to use whatever
you want)
• Postman/CURL

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Agenda

Day 1

• 9:00-9:30am Registration (see you at the entrance or 6th floor)

• 9:30-10:00am Introduction from Wendy Johansson, our “Product &
User Experience Leadership and Sr Director of Academy”
• 10:00-10:10am - Lecturers brief intro
• 10:10-10:30am - Mentor/mentee groups introduce themselves to each
other within their groups
• 10:30-11:45am - Introduction to Conversational Interfaces /
Case studies of FB Messenger Bots from Alonso Fernández (Guest
lecturer) from Facebook
• How they work?
• Why to build one?
• Tech challenges and limitations
• Break (15m)
• 12:00-2:00pm - The UX of ChatBots
Exercise: students draw out user flow
• 2:00-3:00pm - Lunch (Hamburgers)
• 3:00-5:30pm - Bots Technical Overview - Part 1
Deep dive on web applications and webhooks
Hands on Exercises
Messaging Platforms APIs
Facebook Messenger focus
• 5:30-6:30pm - Exercise: build the first bot from scratch with FB
Messenger.
Guided: Built Echo Bot

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Agenda

Day 2

• 9:30am-11:30pm - Bots Technical Overview - Part 2

Integrations: deep dive on making API requests, etc. (Emmanuel) (2h)
Foursquare
• 11:30am-12:30am - Guided: Add NLP (1h)
• 12:30-1:30pm - Build your own bot
• 1:30-2:15pm - Lunch (Pizza)
• 2:15-5:15pm - Keep building your own bot
• 5:15-6:45pm - Showcase & Networking

If you may have any questions about the location, content or

general information — don’t hesitate to contact Carolina
Navarro, Academy PM (33 2201 3008).

Get ready for a weekend full of code&fun!

The Wizeline Team

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