Google Home Development: From Beginner to Intermediate (Udemy.com)
The most comprehensive and complete Google Home course. Build & deploy voice activated applications.
Created by: Nicholas "Techustler" Ivanecky
Last updated July 2017
What you will learn
- Understand and learn about conversational interfaces and agents
- Build Google Home Apps with little or zero coding using API ai
- Understand the Architecture of a Google Home App
- Deploying a Google Home App on the Google Actions Developer Account
- Understand and use Node js for building basic Google Home Apps
- Create your own APIs with Amazon Web Services
- Be able to Build a Word Game with API ai
- Be able to Build a Weather App with Yahoo API
- Be able to Build a Pokemon Go Simulation with POKE API
- Deploy Google Home Apps on cloud platforms such as AWS, Glitch, and API ai
How it compares
Against the other 815 rated Udemy courses in Web Development on CourseDuck:
- Rating3.6 out of 5among the lower-rated ones
- Reviews85#683 of 816 by number of reviews
- Length3.8 hoursshorter than 72% of them
- Last updatedJuly 2017earlier than 96% of them
Course Description
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Have you ever wondered how Google Home Apps are made?
Why are Google and Amazon investing in voice technology?
A better question is why haven't you built an Google Home App yet.
If you ever wanted to understand the space of Voice Apps or build them yourself, then take my course "Google Home Development: From Beginner to Intermediate". I designed it in a practical way so that when you finish the content you can immediately put it into use with your Google Home or online counterpart.
Now, why should you build Google Home Apps?
The biggest industries in technology are surrounded by AI, Bots, and Voice technology. Voice technology I believe will be the new 21st century user interface that will not only understand basic commands, but will be so smart to understand anything you tell it. This is why Amazon and Google have made big bets; with Alexa alone planing to generate close to $11 billion dollars by 2020. Apple's version of Google Home called "HomePods" is also coming to the market by the end of 2017. Now, Google's version has come to the market is quickly taking market share from Amazon. Google understands data and knows this is where the market is heading. Now is the best time to learn these skills before the mainstream starts developing applications. We all know the story about apps for the smartphones, this is the same thing.
This course contains over 55 lectures and 4 hrs of content. It's designed for beginners to play with new platforms in the voice space. You’ll learn the tools needed to build Google Home Apps, how to create a conversation, be able to access APIs for data driven apps, create APIs through Amazon API Gateway.
Course Structure
The course follows a familiar structure where in each video I will teach the concepts followed by a challenge or practice question. If your goal is to become a better developer, you should understand node.js, server side development and how to access certain APIs to build better Google Home Apps. The course does not go deep into understanding Node.js but you will understand the architecture and ability to publish apps for Google Home.
Environment Setup
This course aims to simulate a live in-person course as much as possible. After you finish each lecture, you should practice and try the solution on your own. You learn the best by practicing and doing.
Projects
At the end of each section, you will be asked to complete a practice problem which you can then share with your network or on the Udemy network.
Testimonials from other Techustler Courses and the Instructor
“Great set of videos Nick! I really liked the format of the videos with you in the corner of the screen showing us how to use the website. Cool songs you use at the beginning of each video. It really gives off the vibe that your course is hip and up-to-date with modern times. You do a great job of keeping of with the times. Stay modern, but classy at the same time Nick!” - Penelope
“Nicholas, very good course on bots! I especially enjoyed that you provided us the opportunity to build bots in a hands-on fashion. Your course sections are very organized and I didn't have to guess to know what I was getting myself into. It is clear you are very knowledgeable as an instructor and have a real connection to your course material. I look forward to taking another course with you!” - Rahul
"First of all I want to say thank you for such a nice and informative course. I have enjoyed it from first lesson till last one. Definitely can say one of the best courses for beginners as you learn how to use a lot of useful tools. Nick keep it up!" - Andriy Herasymenko
"Thank you so much Nicholas! The bot course was very informative and helpful for my learning. Keep up the good work!" - Christine
"It was a highly positive experience working alongside Nick at DigaBlue and with the work ethic he has, I am certain that he will produce great results in his future endeavors." - Saif
"I am glad to take this course. Anyone interested in a great introduction and exercises about chat bots this is a course to start. The instructor take you to every stage of the basic creation on your first Chat Bot and then apply advanced skills." - Miguel Rivera
"This is a really good intro course to building simple but useful bots. Nick breaks each lesson up thoughtfully and into parts that are easy to follow and implement straight away. With modern api's to make bots from simple to highly sophisticated, this course it great for learning all the moving parts. I feel more confident in designing, building and marketing a bot myself now!" - Jason
What is the target audience?
This course is designed for people with little or no experience in javascript which is needed to make Google Home skills. By the end of the course, you’ll have valuable skills that will help you be creative and resourceful in your pursuit of building products (hopefully in the voice space :)
Next Steps
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Instructor Details
- 3.6 Rating
85 Reviews
Nicholas "Techustler" Ivanecky
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I’m a product manager with 5 years of experience in both web and mobile products. I have worked on professional assistant mobile applications to local business advertising solutions on the web. Until recently, I led the product team for WeBeam, a professional networking tool focused on enhancing attendees’s experiences at events. In this role, I managed the development of WeBeam from idea to live product. I created user flow diagrams and PRDs, collaborated with marketing to develop the user-interface and worked alongside engineers during development, QA, and user testing. Successes included growing pre-launch signups 5% WoW, getting featured in 13 press articles like Product Hunt and LinkedIn Pulse, and driving traffic through AEO, Twitter Scripts, and Email Lists. Previous experience includes being a marketing associate at Digablue where I researched market needs, created messaging for the company’s website, and developed HTML email campaigns.
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Reviews
By Douglas Willett on 6/26/2018
Not sure if the captions on the videos were done by a 2nd grader or auto generated but they are terrible. Hard to hear the instructor sometimes and the captions do not help at all with that issue. Course is also outdated from the conversion api.ai to DialogFlow. Makes it hard to follow.
By Jean-Michel BOULCOURT on 12/29/2017
Les exemples sont répétitifs (peu de différence entre l'exemple gameofthrone et la meteo). Certains tutoriaux gratuits sur internet sont beaucoup mieux faits. L'instructeur n'a pas bien préparé son cours, et il y a parfois des videos entières où on le voit chercher à résoudre un bug. Une fois ca peut-etre instructif mais ca revient 2 ou 3 fois dans le cours. La vignette de l'instructeur cache parfois des elements de l'ecran importants. L'animation de l'instructeur n'est pas très motivante.
By Brian on 11/28/2017
Material is slightly dated. Names of things have changed. The UI to build intents, entities works differently in some cases than what the course shows. Couldn't get all the projects and/or code samples to work.
By Donna Hennessey on 11/14/2017
What a great course Nick! I'm just starting to catch up with my two daughters on the tech craze in this day and age and your courses are very useful for this! Thank you!
By John Webeam on 11/12/2017
Google Home development is similar to Alexa development. Nick makes it easy to understand in his lectures. I like the practice and variety of projects.
By Barbara Marsh on 10/24/2017
Overall, a very good course and I learned a lot. My only criticism is that it may need updating due to changes in the Dialogflow interface, and changes to the newer version of node now implemented in AWS Lambda. These were minor in most of the projects, but I had to do quite a lot of code rewriting for the Pokemon Go app. This might be an issue for someone with no coding experience, but it gave me an opportunity to practice my debugging skills!
By Lekamge Asanka Perera on 9/2/2017
Terrible.. Low quality. If I knew the video quality I wouldn't have bought this course. I don't understand why the author wants to put his lame ass face on every video which is disturbing
By Riga Rabatinovach on 8/28/2017
Excellent course here Nicholas! I really enjoyed the level of organization and just how informative your clips were. Thank you!
By Jason Lamont on 8/10/2017
The content was interesting and decent. The issue for me was there was too much time spend on troubleshooting simple things. This could have been solved with some simple preparation and/or video editing.
By Calvin Kochner on 7/21/2017
This is interesting Nick! This is my first course with you, but I'm looking forward to taking more with you. Thank you for this course!
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