After starting a new job (at a former company I worked for!), it was time to get back into Salesforce.
I’ve spent the last few years in Zoho CRM – most recently doing a lot of Deluge (scripting), automation with Zoho Flow and webhook work with SaaS tools.
As I’ve mentioned in other articles – Deluge can be pretty limiting. Little things like loops are missing that make things harder than they need to be.
Well as part of what I deemed “Zoho to SFDC translation week” I decided to grab a few quick Udemy courses that would have some lab components so I could quickly refresh (I did use SFDC years ago – so it was shake the rust off, and learn some of the new things that have been added since).
To start I picked a short 4-5 hour Udemy course called “Salesforce Apex: The Complete Introduction for Beginners”. The first part was a bit too slow like a lot of these classes are – covering Variables, Operators Control Flow, etc.
Then it started to get into things I’ve not done in a few years so it was a nice refresher.
– Apex
– Object Oriented Apex – kind of…
– Collections
– SOQL
– Triggers
– Unit Tests
There are a lot of other courses out there – but some are 30+ hours long, and I just wanted a quick afternoon or two type thing.
It helped me remember a few things, helped me find some things I was used to in Zoho, and most importantly – I got loops back in the CRM scripts. 🙂