Like it or not, our houses are getting smarter. If you’re sharp and interested in coding, you’ll want to learn to develop for Alexa, the digital assistant popping up in homes around the world due to the amazing success of the Amazon Echo.
Echo and Alexa are the opening shots of the smart home revolution, and with this bundle of comprehensive coding lessons you can get positioned to make your mark. Right now, you can get access to the whole thing for just $19 at Cult of Mac Deals.
First in this pair of lessons is the Alexa development course for absolute beginners. This set of lessons will teach you 10 essential skills to build for Echo and Alexa, even if you’ve never written a line of code before. After a set of short lesson sections, you’ll be able to test your skills with an 80-minute mock exam.
Second is the Cloud Guru course, which will teach the skills you need to build complex voice applications that make use of the Alexa Skills Kit, all structured in the form of an end-to-end project. Across 18 lectures that clock in at 8 hours, you’ll dive into the advanced functionality of Alexa, including account linking, persistent database storage, audio streaming and lots more.
Buy now: Get the Amazon Alexa Coding Bundle for $19 — that’s a whopping 93 percent off the usual price.
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2 responses to “Learn to code for Alexa and the smart home revolution [Deals]”
Everytime I hear “Alexa” I think that sb at that company must know transexual prostitutes….
“Siri” is the name of 19th century writer Strindberg’s wife…..
“Cortana” sounds like a plece in spain
“Hey Google”? Whats their system named? Watson? No thats IBM.
@DrMugg – From 9to5mac. Dag Kittlaus, one of the former of Siri, wanted to name his daughter Siri, but he got a son so he instead named his company Siri .“Our first child was going to be named Siri, but then we got Markus”.
Btw. Siri in Norwegian means “beautiful victorious counselor”.
Alexa is a short form of Alexandra It’s derived from the Greek alexein (to defend, to help).
Cortona is in Italy