Build Better Chatbots: A Complete Guide to Getting Started with Chatbots

ISBN-13: 9781484231104 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 109 str.

Rashid Khan; Anik Das

Spis treści

Chapter 1:  Introduction to Chatbot

Chapter Goal: Getting an understanding of the bot ecosystem

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Chapter 2:  Setting up the Developer Environment

Chapter Goal: Help the developers get onboard to development cycle by explaining the bot developer tools

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Sub - Topics

1. Connectors for Facebook Messenger, Skype, KiK, etc.

2. Microsoft Bot Framework

3. Hello World with a Bot

Chapter 3: Basics of Bot Building

Chapter Goal: Helping developer understand the various components in chatbot development

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Sub - Topics:  

1. Understand Intents

2. Recognize Entities

3. UX Patterns

4. Analytics

Chapter 4: Integrations to IFTT & IoT

Chapter Goal: Helping developer integrate their bots to real world scenarios with connecting to IoT devices and programm

ing a IFTT

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1. REST API’s

2. Basics of IoT

3. Project

Chapter 5: Business & Monetization 

Chapter Goal: Helping readers understand the business side of Chatbot and ways to Monetize

O autorze

Rashid Khan, is an author & entrepreneur. He cofounded Yellow Messenger with Anik Das, Raghu Ravinutala and Jaya Kishore. Previously he worked at EdegeVerve Systems Ltd where he was building backend to support IoT devices. He has authored a book on IoT titled “Learning IoT using Particle Photon & Electron” published by Packt Pub.

Anik Das is an open source enthusiast and an entrepreneur at heart. He cofounded Yellow Messenger with Rashid, Raghu and Kishore. He is a frequent contributor to a lot of Python and Javascript projects on Gitbhub. He is the contributor to Django-LibSpark a Python library designed for Django to access Apache Spark on the UI.

Blurb

Learn best practices for building bots by focusing on the technological implementation and UX in this practical book. You will cover key topics such as setting up a development environment for creating chatbots for multiple channels (Facebook Messenger, Skype, and KiK); building a chatbot (design to implementation); integrating to IFTT (If This Then That) and IoT (Internet of Things); carrying out analytics and metrics for chatbots; and most importantly monetizing models and business sense for chatbots. 

Build Better Chatbots is easy to follow with code snippets provided in the book and complete code open sourced and available to download. 

With Facebook opening up its Messenger platform for developers, followed by Microsoft opening up Skype for development, a new channel has emerged for brands to acquire, engage, and service customers on chat with chatbots.

You will:

• Work with the bot development life cycle

Master bot UX design

Integrate into the bot ecosystem

Maximize the business and monetization potential for bots