Intro to App Building with Salesforce
Hosted by Girl Develop It RDU
Details
Note: This class will run from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm with a 45 minute break for lunch.
There is on-street parking on Dawson, free on weekends. You can also park in the Wake County Parking Deck, at $1/hour. The garage address is 412 S McDowell St.
Interested in an in-demand career with salaries up to six figures? The job market for Salesforce professionals is growing, with over 300,000 job openings for Salesforce skills created last year*. In this class, you'll get a crash course in building simple employee-facing business apps that run on both a web browser and a mobile device - without writing any code!
Whether you’re familiar with Salesforce from your work experience or are just looking for a career in a hot field, join us to learn about app-building on Salesforce.
What this class will cover:
• What is Salesforce and what are the career opportunities for Salesforce Admins and Developers?
• App-building concepts including data modeling, user interfaces, business logic, reports, dashboards, and mobile.
• Hands-on and guided project building to build a sample app in one day.
• Introduction to Trailhead (https://developer.salesforce.com/trailhead/), an online learning platform for Salesforce.
• Resources for connecting with the Salesforce community (https://success.salesforce.com/).
The tools for learning to develop with Salesforce are free:
• Trailhead (https://developer.salesforce.com/trailhead/), the fun free way to learn Salesforce
• Salesforce1 Mobile App (AppStore and Google Play)
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Your Instructors:
Sarah Amin
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Sarah is a Salesforce Consultant and Solution Manager for North Peak Solutions, a consulting firm working exclusively with nonprofit organizations. Sarah has also served as leader of the Salesforce Raleigh Durham Nonprofit User Group and currently leads the Salesforce Raleigh Women In Tech User Group. Sarah has been working with Salesforce since 2012 and is Certified Administrator, Advanced Administrator and Platform App Builder. In her free time, Sarah spends her time cooking and gardening with her husband and two small children.
Amber Neill Boaz
Amber entered the Salesforce universe in late 2008 and was immediately smitten. Since then she has passed 6 certification exams, co-founded 4 user groups in central North Carolina, and is a five-time Dreamforce speaker. Amber has been a Salesforce.com MVP since 2011
Amber is always looking for ways to help organizations streamline their processes. She has worked with Fortune 500 organizations, startups, nonprofits, and everything in between. When not Salesforce-ing, Amber enjoys running in her hometown of Durham NC, Tweeting (@amber9904), community theater, and spending time with her nieces.
Prerequisites:
Students should be fairly familiar with using web and mobile applications and Googling for answers to all of life’s questions. You do not need any prior Salesforce or programming experience.
Tech Requirements:
Please bring a laptop, not an iPad/tablet. The visual development tools only run on a modern browser (Chrome, Firefox, Safari 9.x and 10.x on Mac OS X, Internet Explorer 11).
Questions or Concerns?
If you have questions, please email us at rdu@girldevelopit.com .
Refund Policy: Your payment of $60 guarantees your seat in the entire course. Please note that we cannot issue refunds, because there's an overhead to issuing refunds via Meetup.com and we already offer the workshops at such a low cost. We put proceeds into the chapter fund, which we use as our scholarship fund.
Other Disclaimers: Our program and curriculum are geared toward adults over the age of 18; at this time we do not accept minors as students in our courses and workshops.
We sometimes take pictures at events to post on social media. If you are uncomfortable having pictures taken or posted on social media, please let us know at the start of the event.
Accessibility: If you have any accessibility issues we should know about, please email us at rdu@girldevelopit.com . We want to make sure everyone can participate!
*Report obtained under license from Burning Glass Technologies. Data from July 2015-June 2016.
