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Create your first bot program

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Create your first bot program

- [Instructor] You can make your bot do things by putting commands in the address bar of a web browser. For example, with this URL I'm making my bot send the text, hello to my user account. I just hit return and there it is. If we switch over to telegram we'll see that indeed, we received that message. But programming means stringing together a whole lot of commands, not just one. So let's start doing that. This is also a good moment to implement practices that'll keep our project well-organized as it grows. These are my bot files on the remote server as I'm seeing them through a text editor, by the way it's Adam on the Mac but you can use whatever you like. They're in the directory bot, which is accessible from the internet at the sub-domain botcourse.tgeller.com or set up our webhook in a web browser using the set webhook method. To make things go faster, I've already written out the URL complete with my bot token…

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