A student successfully completing this class will be well on the way to being prepared for the Salesforce Certified Platform Developer I exam. This class is delivered by a senior instructor with many years of real world programming experience and will cover the following topics: The fundamentals of declarative development on the Force.com Platform including custom and standard objects, fields, security, workflow, approval processes, and validation rules Working with common Force.com development tools, including but not limited to: VS Code, Developers Workbench, Developer Console Understanding the software development lifecycle on the Force.com platform and utilizing the Metadata API, Unmanaged Packages, Managed Packages and Change Sets Apex fundamentals, including but not limited to: developing Apex triggers, developing Visualforce custom controllers and controller extensions using Apex, developing email services using Apex, sending emails using Apex and Workflow, and developing test methods. Visualforce fundamentals, including but not limited to: Consuming standard and custom controllers and controller extensions using Visualforce, utilizing CSS within Visualforce pages, embedding a Salesforce chart on a Visualforce page, utilizing Field Sets, and embedding a Visualforce page in a dashboard.