This 2-Day course, designed for developers and data scientists, will ramp up the attendee very quickly on Microsoft's powerful machine learning algorithm APIs as a part of Cognitive Services and chat bot development tools as part of the Bot Framework. These tools will be called out separately as independent and innovative tools-of-the-trade, as well as a big part of the course focusing on the power of combining these tools to create intelligent chat bots (think instant messaging a picture to get an intelligent caption or annotating conversations based on key phrases). More in the v2 Syllabus here and v1 of the course Syllabus is also available here.
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- NEW Syllabus and Course Description on the wiki. The v1 Course Syllabus is also on the wiki here.
- Learn about the different types of bots (they aren't always smart)
- Learn about the components of a bot in the context of the Microsoft Bot Framework (BF)
- Gain pratical knowledge of how to integrate Cognitive Services "smarts" into a bot
- Gain understanding around what makes for an excellent user experience
- Gain hands-on knowledge of how to quickly implement, publish, register and consume a bot with the BF
- Understand the development of bots on a deeper level by plunging into the SDKs
- Become proficient at integrating the right kind of "smarts" for the right kind of bot and use case
- Cognitive Services Overview
- Cognitive Services Topic Deep Dive
- Bot Framework Overview
- User Experience: Principles and Best Practices
- Developer's Introduction and Building an Intelligent Bot with Bot Builder
- Bot Framework Developer's Deep Dive