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SAS Programming

FREE ONLINE COURSE   |   21 HOURS OF CONTENT

This SAS Programming course 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.

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Learning SAS Programming 1: Essentials gives you practical, in-demand programming skills that are widely used in finance, healthcare, marketing, and analytics. Whether you're building a career in data science or want to boost your ability to analyse and report data, SAS is a trusted tool across industries. And because this course is free in the self-paced e-learning format, it’s a low-risk, high-reward way to begin.

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Why you'll love this free SAS course

  • Totally Free and Flexible - Access the full self-paced e-learning version at no cost.
  • Beginner-Friendly - No prior  SAS or programming experience needed; it’s designed for complete beginners.
  • Comprehensive Foundations - Learn core skills like navigating SAS, reading data from different sources, creating variables, and combining data sets.
  • Reporting and Analysis Skills - Gain the ability to generate both detailed and summary reports using SAS procedures.
  • Pathway to Certification & Advanced Courses - This course is a prerequisite for more advanced SAS courses and aligns with SAS Base Programming certification objectives

 

What you'll learn

In this course, you will:

  • Write your first SAS programs - Learn syntax, how to submit code, and fix errors.
  • Access and import data - Read in data from raw files, spreadsheets, databases, and SAS data sets.
  • Manipulate and cleanse data - Use conditional logic, built-in SAS functions, and data-step processing to clean and transform data.
  • Merge and combine datasets - Concatenate and merge data intelligently, even when matching isn’t one-to-one.
  • Produce reports - Generate both detailed listing reports and summary statistics using procedures like FREQ, MEANS, and UNIVARIATE.

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