Beginning Salesforce Developer

© Michael Wicherski 2017

Michael Wicherski, Beginning Salesforce Developer, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3300-9_5

5. Introduction to Apex

Michael Wicherski¹ 

(1)Los Angeles, California, USA

If Chapter 3 needed a cup of coffee or tea, this chapter is going to need a pot, or two. The importance of this chapter cannot be stressed enough, as it will lay the groundwork for all future chapters across this book, and the rest of the series. This chapter is going to introduce the Apex programming language: Salesforce's own proprietary language.

We will see how to create Apex classes and how to write methods, and we will learn about all of the little components that make up the language such as variables, flow control, structure, and even governor limits. ...