After you have your developer account, there are many resources
available to you for learning about
Apex:
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Force.com Workbook: Get Started Building Your First App in the Cloud
- Beginning programmers
- A set of ten 30-minute tutorials that introduce various Force.com platform features. The Force.com Workbook tutorials are centered around building a very simple warehouse
management system. You'll start developing the application from the
bottom up; that is, you'll first build a database model for keeping
track of merchandise. You'll continue by adding business logic: validation
rules to ensure that there is enough stock, workflow to update inventory
when something is sold, approvals to send email notifications for
large invoice values, and trigger logic to update the prices in open
invoices. Once the database and business logic are complete, you'll
create a user interface to display a product inventory to staff, a
public website to display a product catalog, and then the start of
a simple store front. If you'd like to develop offline and integrate
with the app, we've added a final tutorial to use Adobe Flash Builder
for Force.com.
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Force.com Workbook: HTML | PDF
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Apex Workbook
- Beginning programmers
- The Apex Workbook introduces you to the Apex programming language through a set of tutorials. You’ll learn
the fundamentals of Apex and how you can use it on the Force.com platform to add custom business logic through triggers, unit tests,
scheduled Apex, batch Apex, REST Web services, and Visualforce controllers.
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Apex Workbook: HTML | PDF
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Salesforce Developers Apex Page
- Beginning and advanced programmers
- The Apex page on Salesforce Developers has links to several resources including articles about the Apex programming language. These resources provide a quick introduction
to Apex and include best practices for Apex development.
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Force.com Cookbook
- Beginning and advanced programmers
- This collaborative site provides many recipes for using the Web
services API, developing Apex code, and creating Visualforce pages. The Force.com Cookbook helps developers become familiar with common Force.com programming techniques and best practices. You can read and comment
on existing recipes, or submit your own recipes, at http://developer.force.com/cookbook.
- Development Life Cycle: Enterprise Development on the Force.com Platform
- Architects and advanced programmers
- Whether you are an architect, administrator, developer, or manager,
the Development Lifecycle Guide prepares you to undertake the development and release of
complex applications on the Force.com platform.
- Training Courses
- Training classes are also available from Salesforce Training & Certification. You can find a complete list of courses
at the Training & Certification site.
- In This Book (Apex Developer's Guide)
- Beginning programmers should look at the following:
- In addition to the above, advanced programmers should look at: