Getting Started: Background Knowledge

Welcome to this overview of basic background information. Dialogflow is a powerful and user-friendly tool to support building a conversational agent, but needs some investment on your end to get acquainted. Git is a common tool used by many coding teams worldwide to develop code in tandem and facilitate its alignment. Getting to know git as part of this course will surely be of benefit to you in the longterm. The resources we refer to below should provide you with the adequate support to use them in the remainder of the project. To make sure that you have the right level of understanding after going through the material, there are two quizzes in CANVAS that test your knowledge on the subjects. We have defined what areas will be tested on but feel free to read beyond those sections or other resources.

Git

Git Commands

You can either do just the basics reading or do the interactive tutorial, or both. There is also a more in-depth explanation of each command in the third page.

The Basics(reading) : Basic Git Commands You Need to Know | Simplilearn

Basics (an interactive tutorial!) -  Learn Git Branching

More in Depth (Extra*) - Everything on Git

Git Merging and Conflicts

How to Resolve Merge Conflicts in Git?

Git Best Practices

Best Git Practices to Follow in Teams - GeeksforGeeks


DialogFlow

An Interactive Tutorial (Optional)

https://botflo.com/dialogflow-es-beginner-tutorial/

Best Practices 

(until and not including ‘Protection of Consumer Practices’ section)

(In ‘Designing for Voice’ it mentions SSML, which will not be emphasized in this course)

General agent design best practices  |  Dialogflow ES  |  Google Cloud

What’s an Agent?

Agents  |  Dialogflow ES  |  Google Cloud

Intents

(all sections until and not including ‘Rich response message’ section)

Intents  |  Dialogflow ES  |  Google Cloud

Entities

(until and not including ‘Session entities’ section) 

Entities  |  Dialogflow ES  |  Google Cloud