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Step by step guide to DialogFlow
When I began learning API.AI, I felt that many of the online resources do not really take a step by step approach – here, by step-by-step I mean an approach where they focus on one thing at a time as they teach. Most of the documentation online is not geared towards beginners. In some ways, I wrote the book I wanted to read while I was getting started.
I make some assumptions about my reader:
- You already know what a chatbot is and what it can do
- You have spent at least some time trying to build an agent in API.AI and know what the Default Welcome Intent and Default Fallback Intent are, and have seen them work in practice
- You feel the existing resources to learn API.AI are not very structured
This book will take you from a beginner to about intermediate level as an API.AI programmer. You will also learn about some of the basic principles behind chatbot programming independent of the bot building framework you use. For example, reading this book will probably help you better understand other frameworks such as wit.ai, converse.ai and the Microsoft Bot Framework, and also help you compare and contrast between them.
There is no code in this book - writing a book covering the topic of programming API.AI could be an entire book all by itself.
Note: This book is based on a series of posts I wrote on my blog, which in turn came about as a result of a question I saw on an online forum, where someone asked if there were any step by step guides. While the core material is similar, the book is formatted and edited a bit more. Bonus material: While interacting on the API.AI forum, I noticed that people new to API.AI could sometimes spend hours or even days troubleshooting certain aspects of API.AI. This book also has a troubleshooting tips section which answers the most common of these issues.
I make some assumptions about my reader:
- You already know what a chatbot is and what it can do
- You have spent at least some time trying to build an agent in API.AI and know what the Default Welcome Intent and Default Fallback Intent are, and have seen them work in practice
- You feel the existing resources to learn API.AI are not very structured
This book will take you from a beginner to about intermediate level as an API.AI programmer. You will also learn about some of the basic principles behind chatbot programming independent of the bot building framework you use. For example, reading this book will probably help you better understand other frameworks such as wit.ai, converse.ai and the Microsoft Bot Framework, and also help you compare and contrast between them.
There is no code in this book - writing a book covering the topic of programming API.AI could be an entire book all by itself.
Note: This book is based on a series of posts I wrote on my blog, which in turn came about as a result of a question I saw on an online forum, where someone asked if there were any step by step guides. While the core material is similar, the book is formatted and edited a bit more. Bonus material: While interacting on the API.AI forum, I noticed that people new to API.AI could sometimes spend hours or even days troubleshooting certain aspects of API.AI. This book also has a troubleshooting tips section which answers the most common of these issues.
117 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 2, 2017
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