Aug 25, 2015

Lab Coat Coat Challenges: Challenge #2 Responses!


Responses are in!


Just like our first challenge, the second had a lot of great submissions. A few common approaches early in the week and a few revisions later after we issued a "Can you do it in a single FOR loop" sub-challenge.

Again - If you haven't had a chance to submit your answer for this challenge OR you think you can improve upon the answers below, please do!


@EricFishmanSF



@melmoussaoui



@DouglasCAyers



Anonymous



@tet3



@debdeepSFDC



@DeborahOrth



@kirkevonphilly








Aug 23, 2015

Lab Coat Challenges: Challenge #3 Now Available


Challenge 3: As Easy as A to B

Hey developers (and budding developers)!

Think you're pretty saavy when it comes Salesforce?  Demonstrate your mastery of the platform and earn the best badge possible - an honorary CRM Science lab coat!

It's back to school already for a lot of young developers out there.  We though this would help them recall some of that knowledge that might have been lost over the summer. 

A... B... shoot, what comes next?

This week's challenge is all about finding the easiest way to increment characters.  How do you increment a string that is set to "A" to "B?"  How about "S" to "T" and so on?

If only if it were as simple as "A" + 1.  Or is it?

In the sample code, you'll be providing the body of a method that accepts two parameters:
  • Letter - a string of a single letter that you'll be incrementing
  • Step - an integer to control how far many steps the starting letter should be shifted.
Up to the challenge?  Review the rules, full details and starter code here!






Aug 19, 2015

Lab Coat Coat Challenges: Challenge #1 Responses!


Responses are in for our first Lab Coat Challenge!

We had some great responses over the last week from several Salesforce devs!  If you haven't had a chance to submit your answer for this challenge OR you think you can improve upon the answers below, please do!




While all technically were valid answers, submissions generally fell into a few camps; those with structure that could be used and extended beyond the example strings and collections provided, those that would only work with the examples given, and those just being..."slick."  We'll call it "slick" and leave the interpretation to you...

Early in the week, no two answers were the same.  By the end of the week, we had several that made use of the list.addAll() method.  Others techniques included various ways of pre-populating lists and even various string manipulations.


All code started with the following...



All code was verified using...



So let's take a look at some of the responses!

Note:  Some code might have been modified up for readability.

Anonymous



Anonymous



@DouglasCAyers



Anonymous



@nitingupta9927



Dan Kelner



@EricFishmanSF



@debdeepsfdc



CRM Science Responses

@kirkevonphilly

When we started preparing these challenges, I wanted to be sure to be able to provide an answer for each. So how did I approach it? Dynamically, of course!



@mikekatulka



Tom Miller







Aug 16, 2015

Lab Coat Challenges: Challenge #2 Now Available


Challenge 2: Reversing Text

Hey developers (and budding developers)!

Think you're pretty saavy when it comes Salesforce?  Demonstrate your mastery of the platform and earn the best badge possible - an honorary CRM Science lab coat!

Challenge #2 is a simple task!  Turn "eeS uoy ta !ecrofmaerD" into "See you at Dreamforce!"  See what we did there?   How few statements do you need?

Up to the challenge?  Review the rules, full details and starter code here!





Aug 7, 2015

Lab Coat Challenges: Challenge #1 is Up!

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Introducing the CRM Science Lab Coat Challenges!




Hey developers!

Think you're pretty saavy when it comes Salesforce?  Demonstrate your mastery of the platform and earn the best badge possible - an honorary CRM Science lab coat!

Challenge #1 is all about working with collections and doing so as efficiently as possible.  The gist is you have a few strings, few lists of strings, few sets of strings, and it's up to you to merge them all down into a single list of strings, using as little code as possible.

Up to the challenge?  Get the full details here!