class schedule

Inspiration

I wanted to create a class schedule / calendar skill since students often need to know these things.

What it does

The skill welcomes you to add classes, delete classes, and to list your classes. Also, you can ask the skill for an encouraging quote.

How I built it

I used AWS Lambda, AWS S3, and nodejs in order to build the skill.

Challenges I ran into

I wanted to read and write information from DynamoDB or S3, but I was running into trouble writing data to these services. Fortunately, I was able to figure out how to read from S3.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

I was able to make an asynchronous request from a Lambda function to get a device's time zone. Also, I was able to figure out how to read information from S3.

What I learned

I learned that there are some useful apis related to Alexa devices that make skills more personable.

What's next for class schedule

I would like to learn how to write to DynamoDB or S3 so then I am not storing all this information in memory.

Built With

• aws-lambda
• node.js
• s3