Getting Started with Salesforce Development

About this course

This course features Coursera Coach! A smarter way to learn with interactive, real-time conversations that help you test your knowledge, challenge assumptions, and deepen your understanding as you progress through the course. Kickstart your journey into Salesforce development and gain the practical skills needed to build powerful applications using Apex, triggers, and Salesforce automation tools. This course emphasizes hands-on learning so you can apply concepts immediately while mastering coding standards and development best practices. You’ll begin with programming fundamentals, exploring Apex syntax, variables, operators, and control structures. From there, you’ll advance to object-oriented concepts, collections, SObjects, and queries, learning to handle exceptions and work with transactions in Salesforce effectively. Each module combines clear explanations with real-world examples to reinforce learning. Next, you’ll dive into advanced Salesforce features, including triggers, Batch Apex, web services, and REST methods. The course also covers writing and testing Apex classes, improving code coverage, and following development best practices, giving you a complete picture of the Salesforce development lifecycle. This course is ideal for aspiring Salesforce developers, administrators, or anyone looking to automate business processes with Apex. Beginners with basic programming knowledge and intermediate learners seeking structured Salesforce development training will benefit most. No prior Salesforce experience is required. By the end of the course, you will be able to write and debug Apex code, design and implement triggers, manage transactions, build REST APIs, handle exceptions, and create test classes to ensure robust, scalable Salesforce applications.

Course objectives

• develop practical skills in Salesforce development
• master coding standards and best practices
• gain understanding of the Salesforce development lifecycle