Level 2 - Scratch: Chatbot

Details: artificial inteligence - Intermediate

ChatBot
School of Coding - Cair4Youth

Using the instructions from the chatbot document you will be able to have your ChatBot respond to user input and make decisions.

Task

Scratch-bot
Negative Space - Pexels

Using the template provided (See page 9 in the chatbot instructions document) complete the tasks below:

Design an intelligent programme that can have a conversation with the user
These types of programmes are often called ChatBots
Learn about how chatbots work and how they function.

Process

Process

Scratch-Bot

Have your chatbot ask questions and allow the user to answer
Store the user’s answers in variables
Have your chatbot make decisions based on what the user enters into the program
Change the appearance of your chatbot depending on their mood

Links have been provided including:

Scratch - The platform you will be using
Scratch Wikipedia - Learn about the platform!
Chatbot Wikipedia - Learn all about chatbots
Young and depressed? Try Woebot! The rise of mental health chatbots in the US - An article relating to the use of chatbots to help young people dealing with mental health and depression.

The purpose of the last link is to help identify the benefits of using chatbots for the better.

A document detailing instructions for this task has been supplied for you to follow.

Videos provided are to offer insight and demos for how to create a chatbot and even an Alexa version of a chatbot!

Conclusion

Congratulations on completing Level 2 - Scratch: Chatbot

By learning how to code on Scratch you should have the fundamentals to go on and do different things from the task you have learned. You can now code a chatbot to respond to certain things such as a name, values and even decisions. The information you have acquired in doing this should be sufficient for you to now create a mini-game of your own so why not try and put this info to good use and practice by creating a chatbot to respond to questions completely created by yourself? Why not stage a pretend job interview scenario were dependant on what you want the chatbot to say either guarantees a successful outcome or a negative outcome!

Learning Objectives

Write code that gets information from the user and stores the answer in a variable
Have your ChatBot respond to user input and make decisions
Customise your ChatBot and experiment with costumes, sounds and backdrops
Have an understanding of the functionality of a chatbot