CMake, Tests & Tooling for C/C++ Projects [2026 Edition] (Udemy.com)

Jan does a pretty thorough job covering the various facets of cmake and the other tools used here. I found his lessons good, thoughtful and complete. He covers a lot of tools and it can sometimes be a challenge to keep up. Also he's not always explaining how to do certain things in VS Code so that I often had to slow down and stop motion even when he's doing something so I can see where he's clicking. Also I wasn't familiar with a lot of the tools he was using so things like I didn't know at first what things like Sanitizers and Code Coverage did until I was more than halfway though a lesson so it would have been useful if he could and given a brief description of what each of those did. As it is though I found the lesson's very thoroughly and professionally done and this knowledge should be a big help in creating good, reliable, code.

Excellent course! It's not only about CMake, but it also includes info about different useful tools and tricks for C++ development. I enjoy it very much and constantly return to it from time to time to refresh my knowledge. Highly recommend! Some other useful topics which are missing here from my perspective are CMake presets, clangd.

It is a very complete course I could name and know some of the concepts I work with everyday. How ever you have to have a little of notion about this topics in order to get all he's explaining. On the other hand I think it could be nice to have a set up from zero, I think this was done in order to do not have to many errors throughout the course. Finally, I really appreciate the effort you put in this course I learned many things and how-tos. Thank you

- This course all runs the live coding example way. So teacher does not uses slides but just comments and explains while coding. And you ca also see how occasional error messages look and how they are solved. Witch IMO help practical knowledge. - Going from simple example to sightly larger one. - Using VS Code and WSL you can run examples on both Linux and Ubuntu. And your additional Linux distribution if you need or want. - Goes both much deeper and wider than other courses I have seen. - The course is not strictly aimed at CMake but also other tools are quickly shown. But of course without deeper explanation nor details. - You can create many examples or it's variants yourself just following the course. No information is missing. (But on some later chapters not all code is written on screen where it follows some pattern that us usually always copied anyway. - Last but not lease the course not only keeps it's quality from first minute to the last one but IMO get even better during first ten or twenty lessons.

As someone who has not done much with C++ in a long time, finding understandable information about cmake was hard, so I grabbed this course. I'm glad I did, the instructor did a great job of explaining things to the point I've done a few small cmake based projects and can look up what I need at this point. Highly recommended.

Blimey! A lot to take onboard, but I appreciate your efforts as it has given me a good foundation stone that I can build on and develop along with the book recently purchased. Many years ago I tried cmake and failed, this and streamlining of the cmake material gives me a much better chance to become competent with cmake. I have done most examples (2/3'rds) as I will have to come back to some of the material to study further. The one bit of feedback, especially for those less experienced, is have an intro lecture where some scaffolding is put in place, such as : revision of the compilation, linking build process through to prior executable distribution, what is meant by target ... a process with key steps (configure, generate and build clearly outline in CMake GUI ) and some mechanics of the cmake language. I know the process in general terms, but I've never really paid too much attention as have used visual studio a lot. Many thanks for you efforts, good course

learned more about compiling / configuring the compiling for C/C++ projects than I ever learned in college. Great additional information covered more than just CMake: package managers, multiple ways of setting up library dependencies, Linux, mac and windows, unit testing, code sanitizers, code formatters, github pages, git hub pre-commit hooks, python utilities for C programming, code coverage, dependency chart, types of libraries, some basic make files for utility, code documentation with doxygen, cross compiling with toolchains and much more to setup a modern professional C/C++ application. Very comprehensive, thank you.

Jan is very knowledgable and he shares his real life experience working with C++ and CMake, he tackles almost every feature in CMake projects and almost does not leave any stone unturned. The course is well structured. After finishing it, one gets a really good understanding of CMake Projects. Jan starts with a gentle introduction and progresses from there. Really enjoyed the course and it is worth watching again, one of the best parts is that towards the end, one ends up with a repeatable workable cross-platform CMake template project.

I would like more examples on the much more advanced topic of CMake. I found myself in disarray from video 24 onwards. It would be better if you could add some additional videos that can help us understand what videos are dealing with what aspect of CMake. Add some examples of projects on the go for us to help and understand what is happening under the hood. Section 3 was a bit hard to link and understand. Section 4 was just touched and needs more effort.

This course is exceptional and Jan is a phenomenal instructor. The course is must have for developers/software engineers who wish to increase their knowledge about C++ tooling. Jan, I hope you can add detailed content on cmake-generator-expressions, cmake environment variables and sanitization checks like CheckIncludeFile. It would also be very helpful for students like me if you have dedicated video(s) demonstrating cmake usage (using terminal) for Windows-MSVC.