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This course teaches you how to write simple SAS programs. The course is a subset of the SAS Programming 1: Essentials course. If you do not plan to write SAS programs and prefer a point-and-click interface to SAS, you should attend the SAS Enterprise Guide 1: Querying and Reporting course.

Learn how to

• plan and write simple SAS programs to solve common data analysis problems
• create simple list and summary reports
• define new data columns (variables)
• execute conditional code
• navigate the SAS windowing environment.

Who should attend

Beginning computer users who want to write simple SAS programs

Approximate duration:  16 hours

License period:  365 days

No SAS experience or programming experience is required, although you should have some computer experience and the need/desire to learn how to program beyond point-and-click techniques. Specifically, you should be able to

• log on and off a computer
• use a keyboard or mouse
• identify the operating system you use or will use to access SAS.

Understanding Programming Concepts

• explaining the use of computers in data processing
• defining programming terms
• defining operating environments
• defining the programming process

Learning the Concepts of SAS Programming

• explaining the basic functionality of SAS
• identifying the file types used in SAS
• identifying a SAS program file and its components

Introducing the Course Scenarios

• defining the lecture scenario

Reading a Raw Data File

• planning to read a raw data file
• defining the exercise scenario

Coding to Read Raw Data

• coding to read a raw data file with column input
• coding a DATA step

Navigating the SAS Windowing Environment

• defining the SAS windowing environment
• identifying the three primary SAS programming windows
• navigating SAS programming windows
• editing and executing SAS code
• saving and retrieving SAS code
• using the Help facility

Creating a List Report with a PROC Step

• planning to create a list report
• coding to create a list report

Enhancing the PRINT Procedure Output

• sorting the observatons in a SAS data set
• enhancing a report

Creating a Variable with the DATA Step

• defining an assignment statement
• planning and coding to create a variable

Performing Conditional Logic with the DATA Step

• defining conditional logic
• planning and coding to perform conditional logic to create a variable

Creating a Summary Report

• defining a statistical report
• planning and coding to create a summary report

Creating a Frequency Report

• planning and coding to create a frequency report
• enhancing PROC FREQ output

Additional Topics

• creating a permanent SAS data set
• reading Microsoft Excel spreadsheets

Students have unlimited 24/7 access to the interactive multimedia course on the Web for one year. The course requires only a standard Web browser and a free Flash plug-in. The course includes data that can be downloaded, printable lesson summaries, a Quick Reference Guide, practices and solutions, step-by-step demonstrations, and a Certificate of Completion.

This course addresses Base SAS. Although this course highlights the features in SAS 9, the majority of the content is relevant to customers without access to the latest release.

You should

• use Internet Explorer 6.0 or later or Firefox 1.5 or later, with JavaScript and cookies enabled
• have the latest version of Macromedia Flash Player installed
• have base SAS software visible on the same machine that you are taking the training on so that you can practice your new skills in your own SAS environment.

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