The document provides an overview of Vamsi Gosu's background as a Salesforce developer and architect, as well as resources for getting started with Salesforce development. It discusses Vamsi's experience and certifications, the Salesforce Developer Group meetups he leads, and gives a quick look at the Salesforce development platform covering Visualforce, Apex, SOQL, and Lightning. It also provides online resources for learning Trailhead and getting certified.

1. Journey to Salesforce Developer
Vamsi Gosu
Developer | Architect | MVP
Techforce Services

2. Salesforce Developer | Architect @ Techforce Services
4 x Salesforce MVP (Most Valuable Professional)
12 x Salesforce Certified, 380 x Trailhead Badges
Salesforce Developer Group Co Leader
Who am I

3. Salesforce Developer Group
Our developer focused meetups
runs once every month
Covering both Beginners and
Advanced topics, Hands on
sessions
Presenters from Salesforce,
Community members, Partners,
App developers
Steven Herod Vamsi Gosu Jannis Bott

4. Recent Meetups in this year
Jan - Salesforce DX (Advanced)
Feb - Getting Started with Salesforce Development (Beginners)
Mar - Heroku Hands on session (Advanced)
If you haven’t registered yet, find us in meetup and register for our next meetup..
Salesforce Developer Group

5. Don’t Wait.. Get Started..

6. Online Resources - Getting Started
Get Started with Salesforce Development https://developer.salesforce.com/gettingstarted

7. Online Resources - Trailhead
The fun way to learn Salesforce https://trailhead.salesforce.com/

8. Online Resources - Trailhead
“Filters” are our friends - use them to narrow down the right content

9. Online Resources - TrailMix

10. Online Resources - Build a Conference Management App
App development with Salesforce Platform https://sfdc.co/appDev

11. Online Resources - Community Forums
https://developer.salesforce.com/forums
https://salesforce.stackexchange.com/
https://success.salesforce.com/

12. Online Resources - Release Notes
https://releasenotes.docs.salesforce.com/
Keep track of all the new changes being
released

13. Get Certified...

14. Quick Look into Salesforce Development
Programmatic (Code)Declarative (Clicks)
Page Layouts / Tabs / Lightning App
Builder..
Process / Workflows / Validation Rules
/ Flows / Formula Fields...
Standard & Custom Objects & Fields /
Object Relationships..
Lightning Components & Apps
Visualforce Pages & Components
Apex Triggers / Controller Extensions /
Batch classes / API
Metadata API / SOQL & SOSL
User Interface
App / Business
Logic
Data Model &
Access

15. User Interface - Visualforce (Salesforce Classic) & Lightning (New Lightning Experience)
Business Logic - Apex (Code behind UI, Triggers, APIs, Batch jobs…)
Data Access & DML - SOQL
Search - SOSL
Quick Look into Salesforce Development

16. Salesforce Platform Server side Programming Language
Similar to Java
Object Oriented & Strongly Typed
Classes & Interfaces
Cloud based compiling, debugging & unit testing
Built in support for Data Access thru inline SOQL
Apex

17. Visualforce
Custom User Interface for Salesforce Classic
Similar to JSP / ASP
HTML page like tags executed server side to generate
dynamic content
Can leverage Javascript and CSS
Follows MVC Architecture
Standard, Custom & Extension controller classes

18. Lightning
Custom User Interface for Lightning Experience
Similar to most modern web frameworks
Modular Components
Client side
Javascript & CSS
Base Components, Data Services, Locker Service..

19. SOQL & DML
Salesforce Object Query Language
Similar to SQL
Ability to traverse object relationship
Built into APEX
DML support in APEX to perform CRUD

20. Get your Data Structure right