Welcome to the Alexa Lesson. Today we are going to figure out how the Alexa bot works and functions!

The files for this app are provided in the folder called memory.

To start out, let's navigate to a great tutorial on how to set up the software by John Wheeler. His github project is called Flask Ask and has a very simple interface for rapid development. Please navigate here to follow along with the tutorial.

The files for this app are in the folder called insulter.

Follow the same steps as the app above until you get to the Alexa Dashboard

• Click on Alexa Skills Kit

• Click on "Add a new skill", call it 'Insult'. Make the invocation name 'Insult' as well.

• Click NEXT

• Copy the following code into the "Intent Schema" field:

  {
      "intents": [{
          "intent": "InsultIntent",
          "slots": [{
              "name": "stname",
              "type": "CLASS_ROSTER"
          }]
      }]
  }
  

• Click on 'Add Slot Type' and call your new slot 'CLASS_ROSTER'.

• Add your names separated by a new line for the people you'd like to insult. Here's a list from my previous class.

  AUSTRALIAN MATT
  AMERICAN MATT
  MATT
  COREY
  DAN
  SHETTY
  FEI
  JESSE
  QINGQING
  BRAD
  AUDREY
  BETH
  

• Add this to the sample utterances:

  InsultIntent {stname}
  InsultIntent insult {stname}
  InsultIntent please insult {stname}  
  InsultIntent would you kindly insult {stname}
  

• Click NEXT

• Add your ngrok endpoint to the endpoint field and make sure the endpoint type is https

• Click NEXT

• For SSL select: 'My development endpoint is a sub-domain of a domain that has a wildcard certificate from a certificate authority'

• Click NEXT

• You should be good to go! You're going to test out your new app here