Developer 1 - Intro

1 - Introduction and Trailer

  • Course called “Introduction to Apex”
    • Topics covered:
      • Basic Triggers
      • Complex logic in code, query and modify records from code
      • Using Apex classes for code organization
      • Basics of Object-Oriented programming
      • Declarative tools
      • Custom metadata types
      • Interacting with Apex from Flows and Process Builders
      • Proper testing
      • Hands-On Challenges

2 - Sign Up for a Developer Account

3 - Developer Console Navigation

  • Developer console is located via clicking the Gear icon > Developer Console
    • Page itself is self-explanatory: Menu at the top, Tools along the bottom
  • Tools
    • Logs: display a history of transactions that populate automatically as you use Salesforce declaratively.
    • Tests: info about Apex Tests
    • Checkpoints: outside of the scope for the MW Developer 1 course, but relevant if you are performing external development with Salesforce DX
    • Query Editor: troubleshoot and execute queries
    • View State: for troubleshooting view states, which are related to developing Visualforce
    • Progress: monitor deployments
    • Problems: errors and warnings will show up as you are writing Apex code