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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 Esther B

Mar 9, 2021

In the beginning we were given an option of what software to download, SAS University or SAS OnDemand. Midway to the course, I realized it wasn't really an option but the later software was preferred. With the exception of this bump, the course was very well taught and provided great information for a beginner like myself. The instructor was great and responded to my concerns immediately. I did learn a lot and would recommend it to anyone willing to give it a try.

By Carina d O

May 25, 2022

Na prova da sessão 5 eu fiquei presa por erros das questões, a questão da macro variável foi dada como errada, mas pelo que o curso ensina esta correto "&Year Sales" e achei mais difícil que as demais provas das outras sessões. No geral o curso é bom, mas poderia ter uma versão em postuguês, pois algumas traduções atrapalham o entendimento.

By Ateka A

Jan 5, 2020

The course was an excellent beginning in learning SAS and I hope to continue with the next course in SAS. The demos and activities given definitely helped me to become more comfortable with SAS programming language. The biggest negative was the difficulty in accessing SAS studio during the shutdown which went from 4 days to 10 days.

By Melinda C

Feb 15, 2021

I find the summary PDF document present towards the end of each week to be quite valuable. The usefulness of some of them can be enhanced to include more specifics examples for options available (or least include the ones taught during the course) for the different procedure statements or statements within the procedures.

By Arrey-Takor A

Jan 19, 2020

This course was great! I love the material was presented and taught. The only thing I wish was different the format of the weekly quizzes. I would've liked for them to be similar to practice ones, where we have to write or edit code to obtain results, as opposed to just being multiple choice.

By Askari A

Jul 17, 2022

Some buggy questions, and it would be nice to review syntax, then practice it, THEN take a quiz and not go from introducing something, to quizzing you immediately, but a good course. It definitely doesn't need 7 weeks though.

By Pramod

Sep 22, 2021

Some part of the assessment didn't have the right data, I have flagged them and raised a ticket, I hope it get addressed soon otherwise very happy with the course content and the way it has been tailored. Very happy!

By Emily B

Jun 15, 2023

I think the course material and the SAS practices/activities/demos were very helpful, however, I didn't like the style of the quiz questions which was very different from the practices.

By Susannah L

Sep 1, 2022

Overall very helpful course. There were a few cases were the questions were vauge and made module quizes difficult. However, feedback on assignments and quizes was very helpful.

By ANTO J

Aug 28, 2023

ITS A VERY GOOD PROGRAMM..IT HELPS ME A LOT TO UNDERSTAND THE BASIC CONCEPTS OF SAS PROGRAMMING...AND ALSO ARISE THE CURIOSITY TO KNOW MORE ABOUT THE SAS ADVANCED CONCEPTS

By Kimberly P

Oct 8, 2021

Very good information, presented in an easy way to understand, great demos. I would like to have more hands on practice activities included.

By Mayank T

Apr 21, 2020

The course provided a good platform by providing insight into SAS and its basic structure which will help in further deepening our knowledge

By Diego J

Oct 27, 2020

Excellent organization and very clear in delivery of concepts. may be improved with further reference to the SAS Documentation more often.

By Lakshmi K

May 19, 2022

It was very good and nice experience learning with coursera. Learnt many- but time was constraints as could not practice in practical.

By Ye F

Nov 19, 2020

It's good, clear tongue and explaining things clearly. Fundamental and basic knowledge of SAS if that's what a learner keen to know.

By Palak S

Apr 27, 2020

This course helped me in the syntactical understanding of SAS. After, this course, now I am able to write SAS Codes. Thank you..!!

By Michael M

Nov 13, 2019

The course was well balanced with exercises and teaching. I enjoyed it, looking forward for the next course

By Prateek S

Apr 30, 2022

The explanation is really good but More extensive exercises can be given to help learners memorise syntax

By Anisha K

Apr 4, 2019

Found the course very helpful for a beginner who didn't know absolutely anything about SAS programming.

By Skirmantas G

Jun 4, 2020

The material started to become difficult to digest after week 5. Everything else was amazing.

By Sanket K

Feb 23, 2021

The reading to material that we can save after each week can have more details & examples

By Jing S

Jan 17, 2023

No guidance from mentors in the forum. You need to figure out problems by yourself.

By 泓原 藍

Jul 13, 2019

It's better to learn PROC SQL at beginning, cause it's really a useful syntax!

By Savithri T N

Jun 22, 2021

It was wonderful. This course gave me a clear foundation for SAS programming

By leventalahan

May 6, 2020

I gave 4 stars because of the minor unclarities I entangled during quizzes.