In this tutorial, you use the Salesforce Platform to build a conference management application that allows conference administrators to manage all the aspects of a conference: sessions, speakers, hotels, etc. You also create a simple consumer-facing application that allows conference attendees to view the conference schedule, and learn more about sessions and speakers.

What You Will Learn

• Create Custom Objects
• Use declarative features of the platform to create an Application, create Tabs, and optimize Page Layouts
• Create Apex Classes
• Use SOQL and DML to query, create, update and delete data
• Create Triggers
• Create Visualforce Pages
• Create Controller Extensions and Custom Controllers
• Use JavaScript in Visualforce Pages
• Authenticate using OAuth
• Access Salesforce data from JavaScript using JavaScript Remoting
• Create a Custom Application using the REST APIs
• Create Unit Tests
• Create Batch Processes

Prerequisites

• To complete this workshop, all you need is a modern browser and a connection to the Internet
• No prior knowledge of Salesforce is required
• A working knowledge of Object-Oriented Programming is assumed

Browser Requirements

The following browsers are supported when working with the Developer Console:

• Most recent version of Google Chrome
• Most recent version of Mozilla Firefox
• Most recent version of Safari
• Internet Explorer 9 or higher

Issues

• Please create an issue here if you run into any problem or if you have a suggestion to improve this workshop.
• You can also use the Comments section at the bottom of each module to ask a question or report a problem.