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Now that you’ve published your first Alexa skill, let’s go back through the steps and look at each of them a little more in depth. In Part I, you created an Alexa skill from VUI development to back-end code to publishing in the Alexa Skills Store. In Part II, we’ll develop another skill, and we’ll see how to use some of the more advanced features of the Alexa platform.

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    Tim Urban, TED2016, Inside the mind of a master procrastinator. Time: 13:00 www.ted.com/talks/tim_urban_inside_the_mind_of_a_master_procrastinator?language=en. The Life Calendar comes from Tim’s Wait But Why blog, from a 2014 article: https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/life-weeks.html

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    For more information on account linking and how it works, look here: https://developer.amazon.com/en-US/docs/alexa/account-linking/account-linking-concepts.html. For some tips specific to account linking for custom skills, look here: https://developer.amazon.com/en-US/docs/alexa/account-linking/account-linking-for-custom-skills.html.

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Kingaby, S.A. (2022). Custom Alexa Skills. In: Data-Driven Alexa Skills. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7449-1_7

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