SYS-ED’s credentials in terms of consultancy experience and advanced degrees when it comes to legacy programming languages - COBOL, Assembler Language, PL/1, Fortran,  REXX, C, and C++, and new technologies integrated with IBM WebSphere MQ middleware and system software - CICS, IMS, and DB2, in many situations will be superior to that of the employees from the source software companies. We get requests from major software companies to provide programming language training for their clients and their staff. SYS-ED programming language courses are comparable to the training offered by the software companies with value-added service provided through our software specific websites: technology assessments, technology updates, knowledge base, and training aids. 

Programming Language Courseware
An important component in the delivery of the programming language training was the development of courseware: student hand-outs, sample programs, skeleton programs, workshops, and training aids. SYS-ED courseware incorporates industry standard content and consultancy derived techniques for designing, coding, and debugging applications. The collective efforts of our subject matter experts, who average 30+ years experience in information technology, are managed by editors, with multidisciplinary expertise in text book authoring and degrees in management and business administration. The classic principles of adult learning are applied to the content, interpreting and translating subject matter into performance objectives, narrative descriptions, and diagrams which explain the architecture, design, and logic of the programming language. The courseware has been designed to utilize a variety of presentation formats: textual, tabular, diagrammatic, bullet point, and code snippets. Our courseware library has been incrementally augmented, revised, and maintained. It is highly valued, especially with legacy programming languages where there is a scarcity of up to date text books and open source software documentation which is typically less comprehensive than its proprietary programming language counterpart. For organization’s that have a requirement for their own employees to teach programming languages or the need to have content available for presentation through a web-based learning medium, we will tailor and license our courseware.

Programming Language Training Programs
SYS-ED offers both FOSS: Free Open Source Software and commercial programming language training programs for Fortune 1000 companies, government municipalities, and healthcare providers.