Smarter Chatbots with Node-RED and Watson AI

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Make money with chatbots

Lab 1: Create your first Node-RED flow

Lab 1 overview
1. Create a Node-RED instance
2. Connect Watson services
3. Create your first flows
Lab 1 solution
Review questions

Lab 2: Build a web page and create a REST API in Node-RED

Lab 2 introduction
1. Create a simple web page
2. Add JavaScript to your web application
3. Create a REST API
4. Consume the Watson Translator service
Lab 2 solution
Review questions

Lab 3: Translate text, analyze tone, add audio, and send tweets from your Node-RED application

Lab 3 introduction
1. Find community nodes
2. Add the community nodes to the Node-RED palette
3. Add the Speech to Text, Tone Analyzer, and Text to Speech services
4. Re-create the Interpreter application
5. Prepare for the OK Watson application
6. Add link nodes to more easily view the logic of the application flow
7. Import the OK Watson flow
8. Connect to your Twitter account
9. Add the community nodes to the package.json file (alternative method)
Lab 3 summary
Lab 3 solution
Review question

Lab 4: Create cognitive web pages and a Messenger bot

Lab 4 overview
1. Obtain Facebook Messenger credentials
2. Create Node-RED webhooks
3. Create the Node-RED Messenger listener
4. Create a Node-RED Messenger writer
5. Build a video captioning application
Lab 4 solution
Review question

Lab 5: Build HTML web pages that use Git repositories that can reuse browser-side JavaScript

Lab 5 introduction
1. Connect the Watson Conversation service to the Messenger bot
2. Build a Node-RED application that can reuse CSS and browser-side JavaScript
Lab 5 Solution
Review question

Final Exam

Summary

Prerequisite

You will work with basic HTML and JavaScript, but the course labs will provide that code.
If you are not familiar with Watson Assistant, you should take the
How to Build Chatbots and Make Money
course first.

Instructors

Soheel Chughtai
Early Program Manager, IBM Watson Developer Cloud
IBM

Emma Dawson
Early Program Manager, IBM Systems
IBM

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