Thinking About Apex: Why Do I Need to Know How Force.com Works To Be a Good Apex Developer?
In Why Do I Need to Know How Force.com Works To Be a Good Apex Developer? – the first post published for the Thinking About Apex: A Salesforce Architect’s Perspective series – I have attempted to establish the “Why?” behind learning the Force.com platform in order to become an effective Apex programmer.
Anyone can read documentation, memorize syntax, and find code snippets on StackExchange to hack their way through an Apex development project, but any developer who wants to write effective and efficient Apex code has to first understand the underlying platform.