Hello!

We're very excited to announce the completion of our newest course, Automating the Deployment of a Reusable Project Skeleton.

Imagine this scenario. You need to set up a repository for a new internal project. You create the new repository and run a single shell command that takes the repository URL as an argument. Less than a minute later, your repository has been configured to use your organization’s standard project skeleton, ensuring that even an experimental prototype will have out-of-the-box support for cross-compilation, quality enforcement, and CI processes.

If that’s a world you want to live in, this is the course for you.

In this course, we guide you through automating the process of deploying your reusable project skeleton to a new project. We also guide you through automating the setup process for a new development machine.

You will learn to:

• Automate the setup of a new Git project using a project skeleton with submodules
• Configure the deployment script to support multiple usage options
• Create Bash aliases and functions that are used to set up a new repository with a single command, even if the project skeleton is not present on your system
• Create Bash aliases that simplify the process of working with projects using your standard project skeleton
• Automate the installation and updating of dependencies
• Automate the process of downloading and installing dependencies outside of a package manager
• Automate the setup of configuration files on a new machine

At the end of this course, you will have scripts and custom shell commands that enable you to set up a new repository or new development machine. By doing this work just once, you’ll reap the benefits on every future project that you start.

I'm looking for people to test out this course, and will be giving priority help to anyone working on it. Educational members have free access to the course already, and I can give community members who are willing to test the course a discount code for free access. Send me a private message before the end of June to receive a code.

We'll now turn our attention to the CMake versions of these courses.

Happy hacking,

Phillip