Practical Hands-on Guide for Alexa Skill Development (2022) (Udemy.com)

It was good. I am amazed by Vivek's breadth of knowledge. Sometimes, Vivek is kind of clunky in his approach. But it was good for me. Use https and grab each chunk? Use fetch instead. A couple of times, changes Amazon had made threw me. But I was able to right the ship. I really appreciate Vivek's mention of how one thing is related to another. One of the banes of my existence is step by step by step explanations. I end up knowing how to do one specific thing. But without understanding the relationships or the structure, I just stand there paralyzed, which asked to do something new, out of my own head, or out of my customer's requirements. Vivek avoids this problem! Well done, Vivek.

Having completed this course I now have a much better understanding of how Alexa works and what I might do with it. Alas the latter might be limited by the availability of APIs, and where they exist there's a good chance there will already be a related Alexa skill. The course includes an example of using the Google Maps API to get travel time estimates but also has an example of retrieving quotations from hard-coded data; I guess there isn't an API for quotes so, should you want that, you would have to create your own database. I enjoyed this course and can recommend it for those who what to learn how this stuff works but warn anyone with a specific goal that what they want to do may or may not turn out to be possible.

Great session. I had a basic understanding and experience in Dialogflow, so some sessions like intents and slots were skipped. But this course is all you need to build skill and test it on a real device. I created a skill for my Echo Show that works like a charm. Thanks, Vivek.

I started two other Alexa courses ( ACloudGuru and Udemy) and neither was in the same league as this one. Vivek explains the code and walks you through it instead of just pasting in the code. Clear and simple explanations that are easy to understand. Great Course!

Learnt a new technology! Vivek teaches all the concepts in a simple and easy way. The basics and foundations are well covered. The last part consists of a very useful topic on how you can use 3rd party APIs to make your Alexa skill more useful. All in all this is a very good course and an awesome technology to learn. Recommend it to everyone.

i'm on lesson 21, so still working on the theory, primarily. but the course seems great, and he's explaining everything well. update 1: unit 36 - just finished the first very simple function and Alexa responded!! so exciting to get so far in such a short period of time.

This Course explanation and architecture is good, but this is not the complete course. Many aspect like Authentication / distribution / https endpoint setup & using multiple slots in single utterances are not covered. Though, for the beginner, its is good to go with this course to understand Alexa skill basic development within Amazon environment. Regards, Naveen Jain

Pro : - reprend les bases et explique par le menu chaque onglet de AWS ou du portail développeur. - Très bien pour un parfait débutant qui se perd dans les méandres de l’écosystème Amazon Cons : - Au final très peu de code et d'exercice de code. - Les exemples de skills qui constituent le corps de la formation sont très basiques. - Très verbeux, trop théorique.

This was an Extremely helpful course for me starting out as a beginner in building apps for Alexa. I gained a thorough insight into building the apps, got to see real life projects up and running and walked away with extreme value for money. Vivek goes above and beyond to teach his students in an easy to understand teaching method, uses thorough explanations and is also quick to help you out when you get stuck on something. I would definitely recommend this course to other students. Wonderful job, thanks very much Vivek and Udemy. - EDIT: January 2019 - I just wanted to drop by and say a huge thank you to Vivek and Udemy. Vivek helped me build a skill that i built named, 'Majesty Words Oxford Dictionary', for Alexa a few months ago, he helped me through the process which included quite a few messages back and forth. I have since published 10 different skills in all available countries, i'm now getting paid for a popular skill i produced in Japan and i also entered my first hackathon yesterday with a newly built children's education skill. My coding skills are way better now and i have the confidence to build any skill i think up. I'm having so much fun making the Alexa skills as a hobby and making a profit as a bonus, I wouldn't have gotten this far if it wasn't for the help of Vivek and Udemy in directing me on how to get my original skill up and running using the Oxford dictionary API. Thanks again and keep up the great work. Your help will never be forgotten.

Excellent course to get started with building & creating Alexa skills. The course is very clear & concise. Everything is explained step by step. Vivek is very experienced at building Alexa skills and he responds to your questions in a timely and efficient manner. The projects built are interesting, useful & fun. I believe I have enough experience in creating my own Alexa Skills, thanks, Vivek!