Alexa Skills Fundamentals (New 2019)

In this project based course we explain and demonstrate how to create 2 engaging Alexa Skills with no prior coding experience required.

You will know how to create a skill with no coding.

Understand and modify the sample code.

Create an Alexa skill for a business, school, church or city.

Create an Alexa skill that gives random tips.

Create a city guide (and understand what you are doing and how to make changes).

We walk you through everything you need to know to build a skill, from a detailed lecture to step by step demonstrations.

See a skill get published, and how to modify the skill after it is published.

Did I mention, you don’t need any coding experience?!  All coding is done via copy / paste.

Learn how to make cards look right.

Learn JavaScript and Node.js basics (no exhaustive lecture on either).

Write Alexa Skills

Publish Alexa Skills

Securing your AWS Account:

     1. How to create Multi Factor Authentication (MFA) for you AWS Root Account.

     2. How to create billing alerts for your account with CloudWatch, SNS and the Billing Console.

           a. We use the Free Tier for everything in this course, but you can set up a billing alert in case you go over 1,000,000 requests and      there is some spend on your account.