Introduction to CMake

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In my last course, I decided to give a small introduction about CMake. The reason is that, although we teach them Make, the majority of students do not use them in their programs. In fact, many times they create a “makefile” program to pretend they are using “make”, but actually, it is a bash script. My intention is to teach them Cmake to encourage them to use an automatic tool for compiling, expecting they use it more, by its simpler syntax.

The english version is:

The spanish version is:

All the source code (in reveal.js, through org-reveal) are available at: https://github.com/dmolina/intro_cmake