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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

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!

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.

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By Robert R

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May 28, 2020

Material presented in an easy to understand way. Intense enough to challenge learning but not so difficult to become discouraging.

By Sean B

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Mar 28, 2021

Good course, plenty of practice exercises and activities to dive into. The work/practice environment is authentic SAS interface.

By JAMJAGELI V S

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Jun 3, 2020

Beautifuly explained. The videos are brief to the point and continuous activities with simple tasks make learning easy and fast.

By Ali F

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Apr 25, 2021

This course is amazing, starts from scratch and teaches with baby steps, and comes with very practical quizzes. Amazing course!

By Cesar O P R

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Apr 21, 2020

This has a good introduction for SAS programming. The way the topics are presented are useful for the purposes of the learning.

By ChaoQi W

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Apr 11, 2022

great beginning for sas. The best part is lesson are based on sas studio, which is free and accessible in both mac and windows

By Jing Z

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Dec 4, 2019

I really learned the foundation of SAS programming. The course if well-structured. Hope it can help with my job-hunting! Woot!

By Cheng-Yi L

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Mar 22, 2020

It is a well-organized and well-instructed course. I am glad that I took this class to pave my way of being a SAS programmer.

By Sharad R

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Dec 29, 2021

Great way to learn how SAS programming and the SQL section at the end. Knowing that we can use SQL statements in SAS program

By Subba R

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Mar 10, 2019

This course really helped me learn basics of SAS programming. Thank you Coursera and SAS for providing great course content.

By Francina V T

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May 15, 2020

Great course, separated into easily digestible logical chunks with great practises and quizes to ensuer you learn properly.

By Sanket J

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Apr 19, 2019

Excellent course. Brilliant teaching. Very responsive assistance on groups regarding queries. Very pleased with the course.

By Neo D M

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Apr 17, 2023

The lectures explained everything so well and my knowledge has broadened and I'm very excited to have learned a new skill.

By Cheng-Ying W

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May 19, 2021

Thoroughly introduces the basics of SAS and provides many practices. It is a good class to start learning SAS programming.

By Abhishek R

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May 10, 2019

The course structure , the exercises the support forum, everything is excellent. The best online course I have ever taken

By Jagrati S

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Oct 11, 2020

A perfect interactive course to learn SAS. The tutor was very nice and explained things as simply as she could. Thankyou.

By Yu-Hung C

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Oct 4, 2019

This course provides very detailed learning progress and resources. I extremely recommend this course for SAS beginners!

By Abu A M H

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Dec 26, 2022

This is an excellent course even for the newbie to get a solid starting in learning SAS! I am glad I took this course.

By DANG H T

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Jun 15, 2023

This course is really useful. It does not require any experience in programming. I have learnt a lot from this course!

By Hui W

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Aug 4, 2019

well organized study materials and easy to follow. More importantly, the staff are very helpful and respond very fast.

By Nil B

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Sep 27, 2020

Não tenho palavras por estar tão feliz com este progresso. O curso é muito bom e não tem como não aprender. Perfeito!

By Shardai J

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May 9, 2020

Loved the course! Loved the actual hands on practice problems to do throughout the course. Cant wait to learn more!

By Nathan G

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Jan 15, 2023

No real complaints except maybe for the quizzes sometimes feeling like they were purposefully trying to trick you.

By ASHISH V

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Dec 3, 2022

I highly recommend this course. It is one of the best Courses on SAS on the Internet. Thank You SAS and Coursera.

By Wing K K N

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Nov 10, 2020

I rated this course 5 stars because the course is well structured with many hands-on activities using SAS Studio.