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The Apex Master Class

The Apex Master Class: a free, ordered Salesforce Apex tutorial series that takes you from no experience writing code at all to being able to write high quality production grade code.

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The Apex Master Class When to Use the Private Keyword in Apex (Ep. 25) Your Default Setting Last of the four access modifiers, and the one you should be reaching for most. private means only this class can use it.… 2 Jun 2022 4 min

The Apex Master Class Conditional Statements (If/Else) in Apex (Ep. 26) Making Your Code Decide Things Every bit of code we’ve written so far runs straight through, top to bottom, doing the same thing every time. Which… 13 Jun 2022 3 min

The Apex Master Class What Are Switch Statements in Apex? (Ep. 27) What Is A Switch Statement? A switch statement looks at one variable and picks a branch based on its value. It’s doing much the same job… 15 Jun 2022 3 min

The Apex Master Class Switch Statements vs If/Else in Apex (Ep. 28) Two Tools, One Job The last two episodes gave you conditionals and switch statements, and they overlap a fair bit. So which one do you actually… 17 Jun 2022 3 min

The Apex Master Class For Loops in Apex: Collection Iteration (Ep. 29) Doing Something To Everything Back in episode 16 we said collections let you hold 200 records in one variable. Great. Now how do you actually do… 20 Jun 2022 4 min

The Apex Master Class Apex For Loop Best Practices (Master Class Ep. 30) The Mistakes Everybody Makes Once Loops are where new Salesforce developers do the most damage, and it’s always the same short list of mistakes. Every one… 9 Dec 2022 4 min

Salesforce Development: Apex Triggers The Complete Guide to Apex Triggers (Ep. 31) You Made It Whew! Thirty episodes down. You are a machine. Now it’s time for the big one. Triggers are where everything you’ve learned so far… 7 Sep 2022 8 min

The Apex Master Class The Complete Guide to SOQL and SOSL (Ep. 32) Finally, The Queries I have been quietly writing SOQL queries in examples since about episode 13 and saying “don’t worry, we’ll cover this later.” Well, it’s… 26 Oct 2022 6 min

The Apex Master Class The Complete Guide to Asynchronous Apex (Ep. 33) The Last One Thirty three episodes. You’ve gone from “what is Salesforce” to writing bulkified triggers and proper SOQL. That’s genuinely a lot, and if you’ve… 12 Jan 2022 6 min

Salesforce Development: IDE Setups Salesforce Development Tutorial: How to Setup Visual Studio Code for Salesforce Development Why use an IDE? First things first… after you use an IDE you will never ask this question again. IT MAKES YOUR LIFE SO MUCH EASIER!… 12 Oct 2020 6 min