This is the repository for the online module Bots as Digital Infrapuncture, commissioned by the Utrecht University
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Title: Critical Interventions through Bots (exercise) Slug: 01-s6-step-1 Date: 2020-11-01 12:00 Summary: Start of the bot-making excercise.

In this last section of the module we will make a bot. 🤖

We will use the dialog writing exercise and transform it into a bot (in case you haven't done it yet, it is recommended to go through this section first).

Before we dive into bot-making, we will first look into the materiality of bots: How do they operate? What code is needed to make a bot? And how does a bot connect to an infrastructure, both in a technical and dialogical way?

Then we will explore bots from a computational and technical point of view. We will go through a couple of basic features of programming logic, such as loops, if/else statements and variables. It will help us to get a better understanding of the technical mechanisms behind these automated agents.

After that, we will look at the code of an example bot, to study how other bot-makers write and operate them.

And lastly, we will finish this module by making a bot ourselves.