The Best Way to Learn Salesforce Apex
An Honest Review of David Liu’s Apex Academy Course
Talk to any Salesforce Administrator and most likely they are not interested in learning Apex. That is part of the draw of jumping into the Salesforce Administrator track; you could become skilled in the technology with “Clicks Not Code.”
Lost in Translation
Even though I liked being a Salesforce Administrator, I tried learning how to code because I thought that I would enjoy it. Learning to code is similar to learning a language; with my mathematics background and love for languages, I thought that coding would be a cinch.
But every time I tried to learn Apex on Trailhead or any other online course, I easily got frustrated or bored. I tried to Google my errors. I talked to other Salesforce Administrators, but they didn’t know Apex that well either. I didn’t want to bother my Salesforce Developer friends with my noob questions. I decided that I would just stay in my lane and leave the coding to the experts.
After a year as a Salesforce Administrator, I started to notice a glaring gap in my Salesforce knowledge. As a client’s platform became more sophisticated, we started consulting Salesforce developers for solutions. The problem was that I couldn’t understand what the developers…
