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Deconstructing the skill - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial
From the course: Learning to Build Alexa Skills
Deconstructing the skill
- Let's take a deep dive into our My Calculator Skill so we deconstruct the various components. This will help us when we perform the skill configuration in the Amazon Developer portal. First we will look at the intents. Remember from our previous discussion. Intents can be thought of as well-defined actions that our users want to perform. They should have a narrow scope and pertain to accomplishing a specific task. For our calculator skill we will have four intents. These intents align to the operations that we want our calculator to perform. They are the addition intent, which will handle addition operations. The subtraction intent. The multiplication intent. And the division intent. So when we are deconstructing our skill it helps to think in terms of units of work that our users will want to perform. That can be isolated in the overall context of the main skill. In this case, a calculator. Next let's visit the…
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