Apex Academy: Fundamental Salesforce Coding Techniques
Learn the core coding concepts that you'll be using every day in Salesforce! Practice using core development tools such as variables, IF statements, loops, and more.
What you'll learn
Behind every advanced Salesforce developer is a strong understanding of fundamental coding techniques in Apex. In this course, Apex Academy #2: Fundamental Salesforce Coding Techniques (the second course of the Apex Academy series), you'll learn the six core Apex tools: variables, collections, dot notation, IF statements, loops, and DML. Next, you'll discover SOQL and Workbench, an SOQL editor, and how to write SOQL queries. Finally, you'll learn how to use SOQL with Apex and test classes, watching demos along the way to solidify these concepts. By the end of this course, you'll know how to write better code in Apex, and you'll be a better Salesforce developer for it.
Table of contents
- Introduction 1m
- Dot Notation: Overview 2m
- Dot Notation: Accessing Fields and Relationships 4m
- Dot Notation: Accessing Methods 10m
- Dot Notation: Quiz 2m
- IF Statements: Overview 2m
- IF Statements: Comparison Operators 3m
- IF Statements: Comparison Operators Quiz 7m
- IF Statements: How They Work 6m
- What Is Null? 6m
- Loops: Overview 2m
- Loops: The FOR EACH Loop 4m
- Loops: The FOR Loop 4m
- Loops: Common Tools 1m
- DML Overview 2m
- DML: When Should We Use DML? 4m
- Summary 2m
- Introduction 1m
- Opportunity Price Wars: Demo Introduction 4m
- Opportunity Price Wars: Analysis 6m
- Opportunity Price Wars: Coding 10m
- Opportunity Price Wars: Challenge 1m
- System.debug(): The Greatest Debugging Tool Ever 5m
- Secret Information: Demo Introduction 2m
- Secret Information: Analysis 2m
- Secret Information: Coding 10m
- Secret Information: Debugging 6m
- Secret Information: Challenge 1m
- Summary 1m
- Introduction 1m
- Opportunity Competitor Test Class: Demo Introduction 3m
- Opportunity Competitor Test Class: Trigger Analysis 6m
- Opportunity Competitor Test Class: Coding 4m
- Secret Information Test Class: Demo Introduction 1m
- Secret Information Test Class: Trigger Analysis 5m
- Secret Information Test Class: Coding 2m
- Secret Information Test Class: Common Testing Pitfalls 2m
- Secret Information Test Class: Running The Test 1m
- Apex Academy #2 Course Homework 3m
- Summary 1m
- Homework Answers 1m
About the author
David Liu is a self-taught programmer whose dreams came true when he became a Salesforce Technical Architect at Google. Now, David dreams of inspiring the next generation of Salesforce developers. He's a four-time Salesforce MVP winner and runs SFDC99.com, the world's most popular Salesforce blog. David has been a close partner with Salesforce throughout his career, often speaking and developing content for Dreamforce, Trailhead, webinars, user groups, and the official Salesforce developer websi... more