Developer 1 - Intro
These notes were taken while studying using Mike Wheeler's Salesforce Courses.
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
- Topics covered:
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