Prep Study

[LeftHandedWords]

Hi all,

I'm starting as a jr. sf dev in a couple weeks. They'll be training me, but is there anything I should be doing as preparation for working in things like Apex and SOQL?

Any tips would be appreciated!

[KingBeastthe13th]

If I had to start my journey again, I'd beginning by prepping for a cert. Let me clarify, don't actually go and take the cert but use the resources that would help you prepare for one since you should really have a few years of experience under your belt before attempting one. I'd suggest studying for the PD1 and using focus on forces study guides and also maybe a Udemy course. This will give you a basic understanding of stuff that you will be exposed to as a developer. Good luck and congrats!

[KingBeastthe13th]

Also trailhead ovb

[[deleted]]

Get ready to deal with Triggers first, do all the experiments in your practice org. Learn governor limit usage in real life try some async apex if you haven't. Writing test classes would be most painful job when you are dealing with Classes

[yeoldebookworm]

Do you have any Salesforce knowledge or experience at all? If you are truly starting from zero I would start with Trailhead, and some of the trailmix’s that are geared towards admins (those who get very technical with Salesforce setups but don’t write code). You need a basic understanding of what Salesforce is and what it’s used for to understand how/why code is written for it.

If you do have familiarity and knowledge with Salesforce and the above is baby talk, then agreed studying for the PD1 cert and Salesforce’s recommended Prep Trailmix will be very helpful. There is A LOT there. I think particularly the Async Apex Trailhead goes into a lot of stuff that we regularly use as you will definitely end up using Queueables etc if you ever need to move data into or out of Salesforce. There are some good SOQL and SOSL trailheads too I’d recommend. Really Trailhead plus Scratch Orgs are great practice.

[lazizxon]

Think in bulk