Developing Telegram Bots using Python

Telegram bots are small programs that can embed in Telegram chats or public channels and perform a specific function. They can be quite powerful and do a variety of things, from sending you email notifications to marking attendance during tutorials. Join this workshop to learn how to make your own Telegram bots - by the end of the workshop, you would have deployed a bot using Python which performs simple functions like sending jokes and telling you the weather!

Here’s an outline for the workshop:

1. Basic Python refresher
2. What is Telegram? Why Telegram?

• What is a Telegram bot?
• Bot examples

3. Learning about the Telegram API architecture
4. “Hello World” of Telegram bots

• Creating a bot which says “Uwu” to everything

5. More advanced bots

• Making HTTP requests
• Create a bot for fetching dad jokes from the web

6. Deploying the bot on Heroku

Speaker: Chaitanya Baranwal (NUS Hackers)

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