Amazon Echo Development Basics

Unzip the Alexa lambda examples and study hello world content to understand intent schema, sample utterances, and how slots define interactions.

Explore how intent handlers power Alexa skill functionality, including hello world and help intents. Test on iPhone or Android, review history, and discover what you can ask.

Select the two files in source that relate to a skill and index, then right-click to compress them into a zip file, and on Windows use a zip program.

Learn to upload code to AWS Lambda for an Alexa skill by creating a Lambda function, uploading a zip file, and configuring a basic execution role.

Test your function using templates to run and verify execution, comparing Amazon Alexa tests with a simple hello world before submitting to confirm success.

Create an Alexa skill by copying the ARN, configuring version 1.0 invocation name, and pasting schema and sample utterances, then saving, testing, and enabling for 'hello world'.

Test the Alexa's skills kit by saying hello, asking for help, and running a hello world example to learn the basics of Amazon Echo development.

Build a history buff Alexa skill that uses a day slot to fetch events from Wikipedia, wiring intents, slots, and a get first event flow with sample utterances.

Create a lambda function from scratch, upload a zip named history, set the execution role, configure event sources to Alexis skills, and test with history version 1.0 utterances.

Test the history buff skill by querying dates to pull events like october 30th and historic milestones such as sweden's palestine recognition and world war two rebuilding.

Explore how to structure intents and sample utterances for an Amazon Echo skill, manage dialogue with pass-through, stage tracking, and session attributes, and reset logic when switching quotes.