Help updating software to be compatible with new API

[jamesking]

Hi,

I'd like to update this Amazon Echo/Alexa Smart Home Skill: https://github.com/auchter/haaska to be compaible with the SmartHome Skill v3 Payload, rather than v2 as at present.

Some details:
https://developer.amazon.com/docs/smarth...atschanged
https://developer.amazon.com/blogs/alexa...-skill-api

I can code (pretty well!) in VBA; but python is a new language and it is different. In VBA I just automate manual processes. This is totally different.

I have no particular time scale in mind, since I know I need to learn a lot before I can make any progress with this (some of the changes to Alexa v2 vs v3 seem quite big). Can anyone point me to a good beginners guide on how to program in python?

I'm also curious about how to debug this code, but I assume that would be done in Amazon Developer Console.

Anyway; any help with where to get started learning python is appreciated; especially if there's a way to utilise my VBA knowledge to learn Python.

Thanks,

James

[wavic]

Hello and welcome!
Here are our Tutorials forum and you can start with all Basic topics: https://python-forum.io/Forum-Tutorials
A list of free resources: http://python-forum.io/Thread-A-List-of-...-Resources

Python is widely used and there is plenty of tutorials out there.

[sparkz_alot]

I will also add, be sure you use the latest version of Python (currently 3.6.4). If you are on Linux, you probably have v2.x and v3.x pre-installed. Use the v3.x.

You should look for tutorials written for v3 and if you plan on purchasing any books, make sure they too are written for v3.