Dialogflow ES for Non-Programmers
Learn to build AI chatbots with Dialogflow ES - no programming required. This comprehensive course covers conversational AI fundamentals through hands-on projects including quiz, survey, and RSVP bots.
Key topics:
- Intent mapping and natural language understanding
- Context management and session variables
- Common pitfalls ("blackholes") and how to avoid them
- Webhook integration basics and database options
Through step-by-step tutorials, you'll master conversation design best practices and build four complete chatbot projects. Ideal for business analysts, product managers, and non-technical professionals looking to create sophisticated conversational experiences.
Prerequisites: None. All examples use Dialogflow's no-code interface.
Curriculum
- 10 Sections
- 67 Lessons
- 0m Duration
Why Choose Dialogflow
6 Lessons
Intro to Dialogflow ES for Non-Programmers
5 Lessons
- Why I updated this tutorial for 2021
- Intents Demo
- Entities Demo
- Contexts Demo
- A quick word on Integrations
Dissecting Intent Mapping in Dialogflow ES
8 Lessons
- Candidate List
- Scoring the user's message
- Stemming
- Stopwords
- ML Threshold
- Term Reinforcement
- Summary Part 1
- Summary Part 2
Conversation Design Considerations
6 Lessons
- Challenges of using slot filling feature
- Choosing the lifespan of a context
- Session Variables Part 1
- Session Variables Part 2
- When NOT to use follow up intents
- When to use the @sys.any wildcard entity
Dialogflow ES Blackholes
11 Lessons
- What are blackholes?
- Context Lifespan
- Slot filling
- Followup Intents
- Wildcard Entity
- User utterances
- ML Threshold
- Flowchart
- Nouns
- Webhooks
- NLU Errors
Dichotomous Bot: Building a Yes/No Decision Tree Bot
6 Lessons
- Yes/No Decision Tree Bot Part 1
- Yes/No Decision Tree Bot Part 2
- Yes/No Decision Tree Bot Part 3
- Yes/No Decision Tree Bot Part 4
- Yes/No Decision Tree Bot Part 5
- Yes/No Decision Tree Bot Part 6
Quiz Bot
4 Lessons
- Quiz Bot Part 1
- Quiz Bot Part 2
- Quiz Bot Part 3
- Quiz Bot Part 4
Survey Bot
7 Lessons
- Survey Bot Part 1
- Survey Bot Part 2
- Survey Bot Part 3
- Survey Bot Part 4
- Survey Bot Part 5
- Survey Bot Part 6
- Survey Bot Part 7
RSVP Bot
8 Lessons
- RSVP Bot Part 1
- RSVP Bot Part 2
- RSVP Bot Part 3
- RSVP Bot Part 4
- RSVP Bot Part 5
- RSVP Bot Part 6
- RSVP Bot Part 7
- RSVP Bot Part 8
Webhooks 101 for Non Programmers
6 Lessons
- Webhooks 101
- Code Walkthrough
- Why I don't recommend using Google Sheets as your database
- The best no code database for non-programmers
- Zoho One: an out-of-the-box option
- The best programming language for Dialogflow ES bots