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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 Victor S

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Aug 5, 2020

Es increíble la verdad, la calidad del curso, los detalles, las respuestas en los foros y la énfasis en la practica para aprender y reforzar los contenidos dados.

By Naveen A

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Feb 25, 2020

This is an excellent course to start the SAS with userfriendly technics, teaching style, course material, examples, all were marvelous. Thank you Team Coursera !!

By RUI C

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Jan 9, 2019

I like the learning structure with demo and exercises. It takes only few days to finish, friendly to beginner and you will have great basic concepts about sas.

By Abhishek D

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Apr 8, 2022

Very Interactive & good graphical explanations and if you want to learn basics of SAS, this course is a good one, actually a very detailed one to strat with.

By Guan W

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Feb 24, 2022

Easy to understand and follow. Plenty of practices as well as syntax summary, it shall be the first class if you want to get your feet wet with data analysis

By Anitha M

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Apr 24, 2023

its a good course

modules are in a very easy way to understand sas

but modules are a little bit faster

it will be better if the videos are a little bit slower

By Yunjeong K

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Jun 20, 2020

This is very good basic SAS course that is perfect for beginner and even those who have experience with SAS programming but feel lack of solid foundation.

By Lai J

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Apr 3, 2022

I have learned alot in this basic course. It has given the drive to delve deeper into SAS programming. The lectures were precise, short and intelligible.

By HARIKESH

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Jun 2, 2020

I have learned how to explore ,read and export and preparing for result as well as to produce a sas table and more interesting SQl procedure.

Thank you!

By Sabeena F

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Jan 10, 2020

Very informative comprehensive course to get started on learning SAS. I loved the interactive learning and the pace of the course. Thanks very much :)

By Tanuj D

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Jul 13, 2022

nice course and exercises. However, it would be better to include a small project related to data analysis to test the skills that have been learnt.

By Sammy A

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May 3, 2021

Wonderful course. I was unable to complete due to vision related issues, otherwise it's arguably one of the best SAS Programming classes I've seen.

By Iris J

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Sep 19, 2023

Basics of SAS programming are well explained, and therefore easy to follow. The hands-on practices are very helpful in understanding the language.

By Vindhya S R

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Dec 3, 2020

This was indeed a good course for beginners. I have learned many things regarding how to analyze, sort data using sas. Thank you for this course.

By Anitha S

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Apr 30, 2021

Getting started with SAS programming was Highly useful and informative to learn and create a strong foundation in the basics of Sas Programming.

By Héctor D M H

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Oct 27, 2019

Justo lo que esperaba, se vieron las bases de SAS y cómo generar reportes útiles y con buen formato, así cómo las bases para generar gráficas

By Deleted A

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Nov 16, 2020

Great overview of SAS that lays a foundation for more learning. Already beginning on the next course to gain more knowledge and use of SAS.

By Keith W

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Mar 18, 2022

I love the hands on experience that this class provides. There is no better approach to learning than hands on experience.

Great Course!

By benjamin k

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Jun 26, 2021

I learned a lot from this course. I now have a good foundation of SAS programming.

Cheers to the instructor and Coursera for the good work.

By Tham Y J

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Nov 8, 2020

As the course title suggests, this is a beginner course for those who wanted to learn SAS programming and the programme itself is perfect.

By Aswin S T

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Apr 2, 2019

Well prepared and simple to understand. Thanks for all the practice exercises. It really helped reinforce understanding of the language.

By Boda M

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Jul 25, 2020

I loved the course and the structure and I got good hands on practice in sas using the activities and practice sessions in the course.

By Jobin J

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Apr 23, 2019

Topics in the course was explained in a step by step manner with lots of demos that helped me to understand those concepts. Thank you!

By Manya J

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Jul 28, 2022

It was a great learning experience. Coming from a non-programming background, this course made it so understandable and interesting.

By Saikat K

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Oct 3, 2022

Structurally well designed for absolute beginners. Loved the course, got input to start new small steps to start SAS. Thank you :)