CMake from Zero to Hero

🚀 Course Description:

Are you a C++ developer or a computer science student feeling the pain of understanding CMake? Or perhaps you've developed an aversion to it, like many others in the programming community? It's time to turn that around! "CMake from Zero to Hero" is your comprehensive guide to mastering CMake on both Linux and Windows systems.

🎓 Why Take This Course?

• 🤝 For Absolute Beginners: No prior experience with CMake is required; this course starts from the ground up! Just make sure you have a basic grasp of C++ fundamentals, and you're all set.

• ✅ Structured Learning Path: Say goodbye to the confusion and frustration associated with learning CMake. We'll take a structured approach using "Hello World"-like examples and apply them to real-world scenarios.

• 👨‍💻 Expert Instructor: With over a decade of professional software development experience and a history of training others, your instructor, Serban Stoenescuc, will guide you through this learning journey with a hands-on approach. He encourages you to dive deep into examples, break them, and learn from the process.

What You'll Gain:

• 🌏 Cross-Platform Mastery: Understand CMake's cross-platform capabilities and how it's used in open-source projects and possibly your own work projects.

• 🚀 Real Project Examples: Get inspired by examples from actual projects, not just theory.

• 🔍 Hands-On Experience: Learn by doing. Write, build, and test your own CMake projects, including setting up builds, exporting configurations, integrating third-party libraries, and running tests with CTest.

• 🤖 Diverse Operating Systems: The majority of examples will be from Linux, with some Windows-specific scenarios covered in tools like CLion, Visual Studio, and the command line with cmake-gui.

Course Outline:

1. CMake Basics: Get familiar with the fundamentals of CMake.
2. Variables: Learn how to use variables effectively in your projects.
3. Control Flow: Understand how to implement conditional logic and loops in your build system.
4. Structuring Your Projects: Discover best practices for organizing your codebase.
5. Export: Master the process of creating exportable projects for different platforms.
6. External Dependencies: Integrate third-party libraries into your projects seamlessly.
7. Testing with CTest: Learn how to automate testing within your build system.

🎉 Join us on this journey to become a CMake expert and transform the way you handle project builds, exports, dependencies, and testing! 🎉

Ready to elevate your C++ development skills? Enroll in "CMake from Zero to Hero" today and unlock the full potential of your projects. Whether you're working on open-source contributions or large-scale commercial applications, mastering CMake is a game-changer. Let's make building your software not just a task, but an empowering experience! 🚀💻✨