Master CMake for Cross-Platform C++ Project Building (Udemy.com)

The course covered all the important aspects of CMake. It would have been nice if the quizes was directly from the actual material presented in the course. This course should have an introduction to installing CMake on the two major platforms, Windows and MacOS. These platforms use differenc compilers and make system than the ones presented in this course. It should be stated up from that the presentation for this course is all on Linux Ubuntu platform. Lucky for me I am familiar with Linux, so I installed Ubuntu on Windows WSL2.

Great course ! CMake is a software difficult to learn. Milan provides lots of great coding examples and explains special behaviors of CMake features. This helps a lot understanding what CMake does behind the scene. The lectures total length was about 3.5 hours at the time of writing this review; however these 3.5 hours cover a LOT of material. As a student, be ready to invest several more hours to re-write and test the code yourself to understand all the CMake functionalities covered in the course. Thank you Milan! :-)

This course is great from a Beginner's outlook, thank you! I also loved how the Milan Yadav made extra efforts by typing each exercise out in a module; compiling and executing programs throughout. I would like to offer some suggestions for this great course from my perspective: 1) Quiz questions can be more difficult. 2) This course should've shown CMake builds for much bigger projects, so as to bring out complexities involved in building large projects. Going by the Title for the Course, after completion of the course, I do not feel like I have mastered CMake, but I feel that this Course has given me the essential knowledge to migrate projects to CMake. Overall, I enjoyed this Course!

I took this course because I am a novice with building C++ projects and I wanted to easily link in and embed Python code in C++. This course was perfect and I found the contents to be well-structured. I especially liked the section about linking external libraries.

I was familiar the CMake wile working with ROS framework but I was not clear about what the syntax of CMakeLists.txt files comes and also structure of include directories. This course helped me about understanding what I am trying to do. Thanks!

The course is thorough and starts from the basics as no other that I could find. I learned much and am pleased, even about some linking details in C++. I give it 4/5 stars because of two areas that could be better. 1. The author could have added one or two more complex examples as a last section to show unexpected, but common issues - f.e., syntax to use certain standard libraries. 2. The lessons are given in a foreign accent with minor grammar mistakes. They can still be understood, but the use of a native reviewer/narrator would have made the course experience better.

Nice course! Well presented. However,there was no mentionof techniques to deal with lots if files. Normal projects have a lot more thant two files - sometimes dozens even hundreds. Listing them all manually is error prone. There are ways for cmake to automatically fetch .h .cpp file names from a directory. Also, I didn't see any mention of unit testing. Testing is a big part of development and there are probably ways to run unit tests after building. Would be nice if the author could add such info. Thank you.

I like this course but if you want to improve it for my opinion I have a couple of points to explore. Could be nice to have a kind of lab, hands on cmakefile like a online docker session with some files in it to experience cmake, or even something similar. I say a docker session to avoid missing files experience and or installation problems. Could be helpful also to have all the lecture slides to review the topics. Thanks.

Milan: I've learnt so much from this well organized and eloquently delivered course. I've made my own notes spanning 150 slides for reference and am sure I'll be back to review some of the sections. I'm happy to give this a 5/5 rating and encourage you to keep up the good work. Thank very much and best wishes to you! Best regards, Andrew

I had little knowledge of CMake and this course is highly informative especially when the official CMake documentation is cryptic for me. Good coverage but I hope the course would talk about generator expression, testing, and what CMake will generate for Visual Studio ("cross-platform" as the title suggests). Also, maybe the instructor can show what's inside the -config.cmake file when introducing exporting packages?