Make a chatbot
This challenge has been written by EU Code Week Team and is part of the EU CODE WEEK CHALLENGES.
Target Audience
- Teachers
- Students (12-18)
Experience
- Advanced
Duration
- 1 hour
Recommended Materials
Purpose
- Code interactive riddles
- Use code to create dialogues between a chatbot and a user
Description
Code a conversation between a chatbot and a user who is trying to solve a riddle. Try to make a chatbot that can chat like a person. Instead of a riddle you can create a dialogue between a chatbot and a user.
Instructions
- Think of a riddle.
- Log in to Pencil Code or create a new account. (When creating a new account keep in mind that real names are not allowed on Pencil Code due to privacy reasons.)
- Click Imagine and Make your own.
- Use blocks or text-based mode to write your riddle.
- Alternatively, you can use this code 1 and adapt it to your riddle or you can select Answering a riddle from the menu and edit it .
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Example
Check out this example of a riddle.
1. This code has been Adapted from Pencil Code activity Answering the Riddle
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