[Hampshire] Training courses

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Author: Captain Haddock
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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