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About the Course

This course is for users who want to learn how to write SAS programs to access, explore, prepare, and analyze data. It is the entry point to learning SAS programming for data science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. It is a prerequisite to many other SAS courses. By the end of this course, you will know how to use SAS Studio to write and submit SAS programs that access SAS, Microsoft Excel, and text data. You will know how to explore and validate data, prepare data by subsetting rows and computing new columns, analyze and report on data, export data and results to other formats, use SQL in SAS to query and join tables. Prerequisites: Learners should have experience using computer software. Specifically, you should be able to understand file structures and system commands on your operating systems and access data files on your operating systems. No prior SAS experience is needed....

Top reviews

DG

Nov 13, 2021

Excellent! This class was super well constructed with great activities and demos in SAS Studio. The instructor was wonderful at explaining everything as well. I learned a lot and really enjoyed it.

DA

Jul 16, 2020

Provides an amazing foundation in SAS as a programmer/data analyst! It covers a lot of important topics to get you started using SAS in real world. It exceeded my expectations, highly recommend it!

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By Oleksandr L

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Aug 30, 2019

The course is highly recommended for those who just started with SAS programming. Lessons very well organized with a lot of examples. It gives foundation understanding of SAS programming,

By Kerry W

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Nov 26, 2020

Thorough and very demanding. I got a rigorous introduction to SAS that gave me the confidence to apply for new job opportunities. This course definitely expanded my professional horizons.

By Herwin P S

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Nov 6, 2019

Very good starting lessons. I'm experienced in many other languages and I found this lessons well planned, didatic and easy to understand. Specially the learning-by-doing method is great!

By Priyanshi P

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Oct 1, 2020

This course provides a foundational curriculum for anyone just starting with SAS. There are hands-on activities after every video which helps solidify the concepts really well. Loved it!

By James B

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Aug 30, 2020

I really felt like I learned a lot. The class was well organized with great examples and activities. I would highly recommend this course. I plan on taking the next series of classes.

By Cassandra N

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Oct 24, 2019

Although it is a steep learning curve, the course was very well organized and extremely helpful. The practice portion was crucial to understanding and learning the basics. Thank you!

By Kyle D

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Mar 30, 2022

This course was great at teaching the basics. I plan to use this at my first job as an analyst. Knowing how to use SAS with different types of files will be significant in my future.

By Anjana J

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Aug 19, 2020

The course is extremely well structured, has great inputs from the instructor; the activities and demos are comprehensive, and constantly made me excited about completing the course!

By Marinda M

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May 3, 2023

Really enjoyed this course. I felt we covered all the basics without wasting time and the practices really helped to implement what was being taught. Looking forward to learn more.

By Yinghao Z

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Sep 27, 2021

This course is really great with clear explanation of the syntax, full of practices, and challenging quizs. I feel confident of my pursuit of the advanced programming certificate.

By Michele F B

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Feb 16, 2021

This course covers the basic steps you need to know in SAS to open/import data, review it, analyze it, and create reports. Makes good use of activities to learn the information.

By Lauriane P

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Aug 7, 2022

I enjoyed it and learned a lot !

One negative aspect : too many "theoretical" questions for quizz tests. I would have appreciated being more evaluated on my practical skills.

By ankit m

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Jul 25, 2022

Hello All

I do recommend this course to all who wants to learn SAS with on prior knowledge of programming. This course will give you solid foundation on SAS basics.

Thank you.

By Shamini P A N P

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Jul 27, 2020

A very well organized course . Each section contains the right amount of quiz/practice to really make even a beginner comfortable and able to handle and finish this course.

By GUPTA S P M

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Apr 30, 2020

It is a very well structured and highly informative course. A must go for beginners. A person with no background in any programming language can also learn a lot from this.

By Laura R

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Dec 17, 2019

Excelente opción para iniciar el manejo de SAS, las explicaciones son claras y los ejercicios buenísimos. A pesar de estar en inglés es de fácil comprensión y muy dinámico.

By Jemi J

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Dec 1, 2022

This course provides a basic understanding on SAS programming. It is very well designed that a person without any prior knowledge on the topic can understand it with ease.

By Panayiotis L

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Sep 4, 2020

This is a great course for learning the basics of SAS programming. They also explain how you can download the software for free, which is great! It is definitely worth it!

By Thubelihle N

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May 23, 2020

The course is a good introductory course,I am actually able to get the general idea in more advanced SAS code having taken the Getting started with SAS programming course

By MANIVANNAN

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Oct 12, 2020

It's a excellent course for beginners to learn SAS programming. It explains each step in more crisp and it also motivates to learn more and more about SAS programming.

By Shivani S

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Dec 2, 2021

Excellent beginner's course in SAS Programming. Covers the basics thoroughly and in depth, allowing plenty of time to practice the techniques learnt. Highly recommend!

By ARPAN M

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Sep 25, 2020

Brilliant course. The instructor explains with great clarity and covers all basic syntax and concepts involved in SAS programming. Would 100% recommend to beginners.

By Cathy P

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Mar 14, 2023

This course does a great job at stepping you through the basics of SAS. They also give you great examples to fall back on when you are applying it at home or work.

By Tracy H

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May 17, 2020

I had used SAS previously, but years ago. This was useful for getting back into that head space, and there are some things I understand better now than ever before.

By Zuqi L

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Jan 12, 2020

A very basic and professional course for SAS beginners, paving an easy path to more advanced SAS programming. Lots of detailed instructions and elaborate exercises.