Re: [Hampshire] Training courses

sounds fairly reasonable for a weeks course with a small class, pricing
depends on a few factors like the number of delegates per trainer,
venue, subject etc.
We do a nice little one day Joomla! training course and we price that at
£500+VAT (or £250 for the half day version) for on-site training for up
to a handful of delegates, so that is right in line with the C++
training. Rather than spending a week mucking about with Joomla! Our
customers prefer to spend a shorter amount of time learning how to use
it productively. They probably end up using more of its features than
they would if self taught.
The other thing to remember about the price is you are not just paying
for the time of the trainer in the room, but also a lot of preparation
time. It takes a lot of effort to structure a course and write up the
materials etc.
Having said all that I don't think I would want to go on an intensive
C++ course or any intensive language course for that matter. Must be a
real nasty one to teach too, you would get a total mix of abilities
(from people with no ability but looking at salaries of C++ jobs, to
uber geeks cross training in a hurry from Java etc.)

Alan.

Captain Haddock wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> This is not directly relevant to Linux but since there are a lot of
> you who obviously work in IT, I was wondering if you could help me
> with this question.
>
> During a random walk on the net, I came across a company that provides
> training in C/C++ and the other programming languages and charges fees
> above £2.5K/person for them. It seems sort of strange that in todays
> world with so many books and online guides any company would be
> willing to shell out so much money for a C programming training
> course. What exactly is the target audience for such courses? The only
> one I can think of is if a company needs to build a team of C
> Programmers in record time, but even that does not seem to convincing
> cnsidering how programmers find it easy to transition between
> languages and could probably learn the language themselves without too
> much of a problem.
>
> Is there really a high enough demand that companies can charge such
> fees and get away with it? or is it more like there is very low demand
> so the fees are high just to make a profit from the trickle of
> customers that they can get?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Ashwin
>