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Create powerful, useful, fast, and fun chat bots that make Slack better About This Book This is the first developer's guide to programming for Slack It covers everything you need to create chat bots for Slack's conversational UI It's full of realistic examples, usable code, and lucid explanations on everything you need to know Who This Book Is For This is a book for software developers who want to build Slack bots for their own company's use or for customers. You need to know JavaScript. What You Will Learn Receive and send messages sent in Slack Respond to user commands Process natural language Perform useful tasks on commands such as fetching data from external sources Use webhooks and slash commands Create a Google Classroom and add customized information for each individual class In Detail Slack promises that its users will "be less busy." Slack bots interact with users in Slack chatrooms, providing useful immediate information, and automating work. This book gives you everything you need to build powerful and useful Slack bots. You'll see how to hook into the Slack API to create software that can read and post to chatrooms, respond to commands and hints given in natural conversational language, and build fun and useful bots for your own place of work, both as a front end to your own service and to distribute and share as apps. You can even sell your bots and build a business as a Slack bot developer. Throughout the book, you'll build useful and fun example applications that you can modify for your own situations. These range from simple, fun applications to liven up discussions to useful, data-driven apps to help you make decisions quickly and manage work. Style and approach This is a friendly step-by-step guide to building powerful, friendly Slack bots.

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A book-length exploration of the role of online chat in supporting the teaching and learning of foreign languages is well overdue. Tudini's new book takes a Conversation Analysis approach, which is new to online Second Language Acquisition. It provides observable, previously undocumented insights into how native speakers and learners pursue the learning of foreign language and culture during online text chat. It looks at dyadic chat between native speakers and learners, with examples drawn from a corpus featuring 133 learners and 584 native speakers of Italian. This unique book contributes to

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Why the troll problem is actually a culture problem: how online trolling fits comfortably within today's media landscape.

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Learn best practices for building bots by focusing on the technological implementation and UX in this practical book. You will cover key topics such as setting up a development environment for creating chatbots for multiple channels (Facebook Messenger, Skype, and KiK); building a chatbot (design to implementation); integrating to IFTT (If This Then That) and IoT (Internet of Things); carrying out analytics and metrics for chatbots; and most importantly monetizing models and business sense for chatbots. Build Better Chatbots is easy to follow with code snippets provided in the book and complete code open sourced and available to download. With Facebook opening up its Messenger platform for developers, followed by Microsoft opening up Skype for development, a new channel has emerged for brands to acquire, engage, and service customers on chat with chatbots. You will: Work with the bot development life cycle Master bot UX design Integrate into the bot ecosystem Maximize the business and monetization potential for bots.

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