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Jackal Harrison
Admin to Developer - best way forward?
Hi folks,
I've been powering my way through Trailhead recently, I've now gone through all of the Admin (just looking through the Advanced trail currently) and also want to gain a better understanding of Programmatic side/more Development focused features.
It probably helps if I state that I've worked in Sales for most of my career so stepping into the technical realm is a fairly big jump for me! Can anyone advise:
- Would it be best to cotinue with the advanced admin trail *before* moving onto the 'Developer - Beginner' trail, or is it worth learning the programmatic side along with declarative before tackling the final trail?
- Is there a good place to start learning APEX? I have a very basic understanding of the code from what i've managed to gleam through Trailhead, but it seems like a 'JAVA/C# for Dummies' book or something similar may be a good idea?
If anyone could spare 2 mins to give me some advice I'd really appreciate it!
Thanks in advance
Jack
I've been powering my way through Trailhead recently, I've now gone through all of the Admin (just looking through the Advanced trail currently) and also want to gain a better understanding of Programmatic side/more Development focused features.
It probably helps if I state that I've worked in Sales for most of my career so stepping into the technical realm is a fairly big jump for me! Can anyone advise:
- Would it be best to cotinue with the advanced admin trail *before* moving onto the 'Developer - Beginner' trail, or is it worth learning the programmatic side along with declarative before tackling the final trail?
- Is there a good place to start learning APEX? I have a very basic understanding of the code from what i've managed to gleam through Trailhead, but it seems like a 'JAVA/C# for Dummies' book or something similar may be a good idea?
If anyone could spare 2 mins to give me some advice I'd really appreciate it!
Thanks in advance
Jack
I would also say try out the Apex Superbadge [2] [3] on trailhead. It's a decent mix between hand holding and letting you figure it out. The only reason I say it's not great for learning to program long term is that you have no real emitional investment in the project and therefore to gain / lose if it doesn't work right.
[1] https://www.codecademy.com/
[2] https://developer.salesforce.com/trailhead/super_badges/superbadge_apex
[3] http://blog.deadlypenguin.com/blog/2016/06/06/trailhead-apex-specialist-superbadge/
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Learning Apex is a bit tougher. I'll give you the same advice that I give anyone that wants to learn how to program. "Find a reason to program and do it." In otherwords, find a project or a reason to code. If you just program to learn it, you won't have the drive or the need to program and it'll just get lost. Or you'll be memorizing and not learning why. Books are a terrible way to learn programming also.
I would also say try out the Apex Superbadge [2] [3] on trailhead. It's a decent mix between hand holding and letting you figure it out. The only reason I say it's not great for learning to program long term is that you have no real emitional investment in the project and therefore to gain / lose if it doesn't work right.
[1] https://www.codecademy.com/
[2] https://developer.salesforce.com/trailhead/super_badges/superbadge_apex
[3] http://blog.deadlypenguin.com/blog/2016/06/06/trailhead-apex-specialist-superbadge/
Those a perfect links, just what I'm after. Your blog looks pretty handy too so I've bookmarked it!
Cheers again :)