Learn Salesforce Development - Zero to Hero

Understand why and when to choose custom development in Salesforce, balancing out-of-the-box tools, flows, triggers, and UI with code for complex integrations.

Compare declarative and programmatic tools in Salesforce and learn when point-and-click configurations or custom coding apply, and how to set up a dev org.

Review Salesforce fundamentals, including the lightning platform, cloud service models, and the MVC pattern. Outline orgs, data models, standard vs custom, object relationships, and Apex as the server-side language.

Explore apex, Salesforce's multi-tenant, on-demand, strongly typed object oriented language for secure database operations. Master insert, update, delete, and queries using sql and sasl with governor limits and locking.

Learn to write your first apex code in the Salesforce developer console, then accelerate development with Visual Studio Code, Salesforce CLI, and the extension pack for retrieve, deploy, and debugging.

Explore object oriented programming concepts in Salesforce, learning how Apex classes serve as templates for objects with variables and methods, including one level of inner classes and sentence case naming.

Learn apex concepts and syntax, including version settings and API versioning, and how class naming, extensions (.apex), and statements end with semicolons, blocks and braces shape apex code behavior.

Explore Apex access modifiers, including global, public, and private, and learn how top-level and inner classes govern visibility across an org and namespaces.

Explore Apex class variables and keywords, including data types, access modifiers (public, global, private), top-level visibility rules, and declaring class variables with semicolons.

Learn Apex methods and class methods in Salesforce, including defining method names, parameters, return types, access modifiers, and using polymorphism to create modular, reusable code.

Learn how constructors initialize Apex classes on instantiation, use the new keyword, define default and polymorphic constructors, and set up class variables, with examples calculating age using date methods.

Explore how the static keyword works in Apex, with static variables and methods initializing once per class, since classes cannot be static, and persisting within a transaction to avoid recursion.

Explore the extends keyword in Apex, showing how a manager extends an employee's capabilities, with virtual classes, non-static methods, and method overriding.

Master conditionals in Apex, including if statements, switch cases, and operators, with boolean flags and hands-on examples; explore collections and loops in Salesforce development.

Explore Apex operators and boolean logic, using and, or, and not to build complex conditions in Salesforce development, with practical use cases across premium, regular, and guest customers.

Learn how lists work in Apex development, including declaration and instantiation, adding and retrieving items, and using size, isEmpty, clear, indexOf, and contains to manage ordered collections.

Explore sets in apex development, highlighting their uniqueness, unordered nature, and absence of duplicates, unlike lists. Learn to add, remove, check containment, and size with currency examples.

Learn how maps, a key-value collection in Apex, store employee details, using put, get, remove, key set, values, size, and containskey to manage data efficiently.

Master loops in apex by writing for loops and iterating over lists, sets, and maps. Use size, get, and keySet to access elements, including standard and advanced for loops.

Implement a password attempts use case in Apex by building a class with a static attempt counter that validates input, returns success or failure, and enforces three failed attempts.

Learn to implement a public static Apex method that takes a map of weekdays to booleans, counts true values, and returns the number of days learned.

Explore a public static int method that counts how many times the keyword 'makes sense' appears in a list of strings, using contains ignore case for case-insensitive match.

Learn how to write an Apex method that finds the highest and lowest scores from a report card map, using map values and sort for a concise solution.

Build a to-do list app in Apex, define an inner work item class, and implement add, update, and retrieve methods to manage tasks in Salesforce development.

Build a certification tracker in Apex by adding new certifications with issue dates and storing them in a map, then return the total count with a dedicated method.

Create a library tracker in apex to store books, map borrowers, lend titles only when available, and show current repository and borrowed records.

Build a travel tracker in Apex for Salesforce development, storing journeys and wish lists in maps and lists, retrieving yearly visits and country counts.

Explore a bonus calculator in Apex that assigns a minimum 25,000 and adjusts per employee type, from regular to CEO/CTO, using if-else or switch-case logic.

Create an Apex vowel counter that takes a list of strings and returns the vowel counts per string, using string count matches and lowercase normalization to handle case sensitivity.

Learn to implement a language selector in Apex that maps an employee locale to a language, with English as default, using switch case or if-else and lowercase normalization.

Discover how the null keyword works in Salesforce development, and use isBlank and isEmpty to distinguish blank, empty, and null values while implementing null checks to prevent errors.

Learn how the final keyword defines constants in Apex, applying it to class- or method-level variables, with static and public options, and initializing once in declaration or constructors.

Learn how with sharing enforces the current user's sharing rules at the class level, while without sharing bypasses them, and discover inherited sharing and when to use each.

Explore sobjects in Salesforce, distinguish standard and custom objects, instantiate with the new keyword, access fields via the dot operator, and note that custom labels use the System class.

Explore database operations in Apex, focusing on insert, update, and delete (CRUD) within a multi-tenant Salesforce environment, and learn bulk DML to avoid governor limits.

Learn to update a Salesforce contact by soql querying an id, set department when the title is SVP procurement, and apply null checks to avoid errors and respect governor limits.

Demonstrates deleting opportunities marked closed lost by querying them with a stage name filter. Performs the bulk delete in a single dml operation to respect dml limits.

Learn to perform database operations in Salesforce with Apex and the database class, using insert, update, and delete, plus partial processing and account field mappings.

Link a task to an account by setting the whatId to the account's ID. Query the account by name and handle missing results to avoid null pointer errors.

Learn how to insert a task linked to a contact using the who id and what id, and avoid field integrity errors when linking to accounts or opportunities.

Learn to update Salesforce cases via Apex by querying for new cases, assembling a cases-to-update list, and closing them with a DML update, while optimizing with Database.update.

Learn how upsert combines insert and update in a single dml statement to create new accounts and modify existing ones using an external id as the key.

Learn to delete and undelete Salesforce records using DML and all rows queries, access the recycle bin, and recover opportunities.

Learn how to use the database.saveResult class to capture bulk insert/update outcomes, check isSuccess, and surface IDs or errors via getId and getErrors to front end systems.

Master Apex database operation results by using database.delete result and upsert result to track delete and upsert actions, and determine created vs updated records with error details and IDs.

Develop apex use case one to create a contact from first name, last name, and email. Move coding to Visual Studio Code with Salesforce CLI.

Learn to calculate simple interest in Apex by writing a method using principal, interest, and time in years to return a decimal, with null checks and deployment to the org.

Learn to send emails from apex by creating a single email message, setting subject and body (plain text or html), and listing recipients as a list of strings.

Create an Apex method that returns the emails of all contacts for a given account name, initially using two queries, then optimizing to a single SOQL query.

Master Apex use case 5 by learning how to check for a parent-child combination of an account name and a contact name using a SOQL query, returning true or false.

Build an Apex voting check from a date of birth by computing age with days between today and birth, using 18 as the threshold and parsing date formats.

Learn Apex use cases seven and eight: implement split bill to compute per-person share from bill amount and people, with checks, and verify divisibility by seven and eleven using Math.mod.

Implement an Apex method checkGenerationType that returns millennial, Gen Z, or Gen Alpha from a birth year, and test it in the Salesforce developer console.

Identify whether a plant is indoor or outdoor using apex by querying the custom metadata type plant information master with a where clause, returning indoor, outdoor, or not specified.

Explore use case 11 in the apex masterclass to return an acronym’s full form by querying a master data store in a list custom setting called Acronym Master.

Learn Apex use case 12 by writing a method that returns the five most recently created tasks today using Apex and a SOQL query with CreatedDate, order by and limit.

Master Apex use case 13 by deriving a first and last name from a company email in the format first_name_last_name@companyname.com, using substring before the at symbol and underscore split.

Generate a Fibonacci sequence in Apex use case 14 by looping with starting values 0 and 1, and stop before exceeding the specified end number.

Explore use case 15 in the apex masterclass by reversing a string with apex's reverse method. Compare manual reversal and the reverse function to strengthen string handling in Salesforce development.

Implement Apex use case 16 by writing a method that sums all numbers from 1 to the final number using a totalSum and a for loop, with plus-equal shorthand.

Learn to implement an Apex method to find min and max in a list of integers and return them as a two-element list.

Explore use case 18 by querying the last ten account and contact records created in the last 24 hours, returning them as a single list of objects.

Determine the Salesforce object type from a record ID using Apex schema methods. Use schema.getGlobalDescribe to find the object's key prefix and map the ID to accounts, opportunities, or leads.

Learn to fetch the logged-in user's time zone, locale, and last login date in Apex use case 20 using the User Info class, and wrap results for front-end use.

Master a simple lead duplicate check with a SOQL query on name, email, lead source, and industry; deploy via apex and exclude the current record.

Learn how to write an Apex class for use case 22 to check if two contacts share the same parent account by comparing account IDs, with null checks.

Learn to automate case reassignment by origin web and high priority to an sla queue in Salesforce, by querying the queue via the group object and updating the case owner.

Learn to write an apex method that returns the highest revenue generating account by querying the account annual revenue field, ordering by revenue desc, and limiting to one result.

Identify and retrieve cases assigned to two queues in Salesforce using Apex, then merge the results into a single collection and deduplicate with a set.

Assign a case to a queue by retrieving the queue name from a custom label and updating the case owner with Apex, avoiding hard-coded IDs.

Identify accounts linked to opportunities with revenue over 80,000 and return a unique set of account IDs using Apex.

Categorize all cases by origin in Apex, returning a map from origin to the list of matching cases. Implement and populate the map using a loop over case records.

Learn how to retrieve all record types for a given SObject in Salesforce using Apex, via both RecordType queries and the Schema class, with practical examples.

Master how to use Salesforce debug logs to trace transactions and understand governor limits. Configure trace flags, set relevant log levels, and read Apex logs to identify issues.

Explore governor limits in a multi-tenant Salesforce platform, including 100 soql queries, 150 dml statements, up to 50,000 records per query, and avoiding dml inside loops with bulk inserts.

Explore custom metadata in Salesforce, compare it with custom settings and labels, and learn to store region-based pricing and retrieve parity values in Apex for multilingual inventories.

Explore custom settings in Salesforce, their hierarchy and list types, how they differ from custom metadata, and how to access org, user, or profile data via Apex.

Explore how custom labels enable multilingual translations via translation workbench, accessed in Apex with System.Label, and used for dynamic navigation and base URLs.

Learn to gracefully handle salesforce apex errors with try-catch-finally, covering null pointer, s object, query, dml, limit, and mixed dml exceptions, using exception methods and limits to debug and recover.

Explore asynchronous apex in Salesforce by comparing sync and async flows, focusing on future methods, batch, and scheduling to improve performance and governor limits.

Discover queueable apex by implementing the queueable interface, overriding execute, and enqueuing jobs with system.enqueueJob. Learn about non-primitive data, chaining, delays, and monitoring apex jobs.

Learn how batch apex handles large data sets by processing records in chunks, using start, execute, and finish, with query locator, governor limits, and optional stateful tracking.

Master field and object level security in Apex by using with sharing, with security enforce, and user mode, guided by schema checks to enforce field permissions and safe data access.