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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 script we wrote in the previous section and translate 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 go through a couple of basic features of programming logic to explore the computational nature of bots, such as loops, if/else statements and variables. It will help us to get a better understanding of the 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.