This book is a practical guide that will help you discover fundamentals for building applications on Force.com without writing a single line of code. If you are new to the Force.com platform and want to learn from scratch, it is advisable that you begin with the first chapter and move on to the last. However, if you are familiar with Force.com and want to understand in detail some aspect of it, you can dip into any chapter. Each certification module is covered in a separate chapter, and is accompanied by questions being asked in the exams.

The book is written in the units of the DEV401 exam. If you have been working on the Force.com platform for more than a year now and are preparing for the DEV401 exam, you can directly skip to the section you are weak in and read it. There is a small exercise at the end of the chapter as well as a sample paper in the final chapter.

If you have relatively little experience on Force.com or wish to strengthen your skills, you can begin from the first chapter and complete the entire Library Management System example.