Taking up Salesforce is
daunting, no doubt about it. But the developer marketing folks at Salesforce have a plethora of resources to check out. Here’s a guide to some of the essential and free resources that will help you get started:
- Sign up for a Developer Force account - The best way to start is to have your own developer environment to build and experiment with. Then leverage a great online community that promotes learning, growth and contribution for the Force.com platform.
- Trailhead - Salesforce's Training website. (NEW WEBSITE)
- SFDC99 - Code training site from Salesforce MVP at Google.com (NEW WEBSITE)
- Release Training - Website with videos on the latest functionality available in Salesforce
- Check out some examples via workbooks :
- Force.com - point-and click configuration for setting up and administration of the environment
- Visualforce - Page markup like HTML
- APEX - Programming language
- Force.com Book
- Cheat sheet for Salesforce 1 Developer. This is just one of many examples...