SAS Programming BASE certification course for SAS Beginners (Udemy.com)

The Complete Prep Course for SAS Certified Base Programming Professionals SAS 9.4 (Exam ID A00-231, A00-233, A00-215 )

Created by: sharon cheng

Produced in 2021

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What you will learn

  • This course is suitable for the SAS BASE certifications including SAS Certified Specialist and SAS Certified Associate (Exam ID A00-231, A00-233, A00-215)
  • All critical and essential SAS BASE Data manipulation and data preparation skills
  • Handle Error by identify and solve SAS errors
  • Combine, merge and restructure data sets
  • SAS Statistical Procedures
  • Reports generating
  • SAS advanced topic: Proc SQL Essentials
  • SAS advanced topic: SAS Macros Essentials

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Overall Score : 84 / 100

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Course Description

you want to start learning SAS programming easily and quickly? This course is the complete SASBASE certification programming course for absolute SAS beginners anyone interested in passing the SASBASE certification exams SAS Certified Specialist: Base Programming Using SAS 9.
4 (Exam ID: A00-231, A00-233)SAS Certified Associate: Programming Fundamentals Using SAS 9.
4 (Exam ID A00-215) --- this course covers far more than this exam required, you may pick and learn the contents required by the exam)Looking for Data manipulation and data preparation course using SAS? This course is also your choice. It covers all critical and essential Data manipulation and data preparation skills using SAS Coding exercises and projects are perfect for for the practical coding questions in the exam for SAS Certified Specialist: Base Programming Using SAS 9.
4You may compare the contents covered in this course with the official SAS BASEcertification Exam contents (due to Udemy policy, I am not allowed to include the SAS link here).
Course Highlights:
step by step/ code by code explanations for easy and efficient learning experiencesthe complete SAS BASE course for beginners and the SASBASE certification examsThis course is a combined course to offer the maxim benefit for my students, it includes contents from the following individual courses1. SASprogramming for beginners2. SAS programming on data manipulation and preparation part 1: modify variables3. SAS programming on data manipulation and preparation part 2: combine/merge data sets4. Overview / Essentials for SASadvanced topics: SASSQL (Proc SQL) and SASMacro Language5. Additional topics: Error handling, Generate reports using ODS statementsdownloadable data and SASprograms used in the course can be obtained in Lecture 4 (the course materials are ONLYfor practice, they are protected by copyright)Quizzes, coding exercises and projects for practice. After all, practice makes perfection!
Coding exercises and projects are perfect for for the practical coding questions in the exam for SAS Certified Specialist: Base Programming Using SAS 9.
4A Note on Course ratings and reviews:
Please be considerate and sincere when you provide ratings and reviews. This will encourage me providing more contents to the course and better service to you! Many students who take this course as a main course have passed the SAS BASE certification. This course is a truly cost-value effective one for both individual users and Udemy for business users.
So Please provide fair ratings to this course with the consideration of the comparison among other available SAS courses. Thank you!
Current course contents: (Please see course curriculum for more detailed information on sections and lectures included in this course) Software installation (SAS University Edition /SAS studio): the complete & step-by-step guide; detailed explanation on File path/directory in SAS studioNavigate/work in SAS environment Get Data in various format into SAS: (read .
txt file, .
csv file, Excel file, format input (using SAS informat to read dates; use SAS format to display SAS date values). Proc Import)Create temporary and permanent SAS data sets (SET statement, LIBNAME statement, SAS libraries )Combine data sets (Concatenate, Append, interleave, Match Merge (one -to-one merge, one-to-many merge))Use SAS Functions to manipulate SAS date values (Explanation on how SAS stores date and time values, SAS functions include MDY, YEAR, QTR, MONTH, DAY, WEEKDAY, TODAY, DATE, INTCK, DATDIF, YRDIF)Use SAS Functions to manipulate character and numeric data values (use SAS functions to Convert Character & Numeric Value (auto-convert; PUT & INPUT functions), Other SAS functions include: SCAN, SUBSTR, TRIM, UPCASE, LOWCASE, PROPCASE, CATX, INDEX, TRANWRD, INT, ROUND)Conditionally execute SAS statements: IF-THEN/ELSE, DO and END statementsSimplify your data with Array (One dimensional array; two dimensional array; Creating Variables in an ARRAY Statement; Assigning Initial Values to Arrays & Creating Temporary Array Elements)Process data with DO LOOPS (the basic of DO LOOPS; constructing DO LOOPS; Conditionally Executing DO Loops using DO UNTIL and DO WHILE; Using Conditional Clauses with the Iterative DO Statement)Work with data & Creating labels and formats (Use assignment statements in the DATA step; Use LABEL and FORMAT statements to modify attributes in a DATA step; Define the length of a variable using the LENGTH statement; Control which observations and variables using DROP, KEEP statements and DROP=, KEEP= options, and IF statement)SAS Statistical Procedures: Proc SORT; Proc PRINT; Proc MEANS; Proc FREQ; Proc UNIVARIATE, Proc Export, Proc ContentGenerate list reports using the PRINT procedure (using VAR, SUM, WHERE, ID and BY statements)Generate reports using ODS statements (Identify ODS destinations, create HTML, PDF, RTF, and Excel files with ODS statements)Reconstruct/Reshape SAS Data sets in DATA step and using Proc TRANSPOSESAS advanced topic: Proc SQL EssentialsSAS advanced topic: SAS Macros EssentialsReferences:
SAS certification prep guide: base programming by SAS InstituteThe little SAS book: a primer / Lora D. Delwiche and Susan J. SlaughterLearning SAS by example: a programmer's guide / Ron CodyNote: A SAS softwarelicenceallows SC statistical programming to create and sell video-based SAS programming online courses.
Who this course is for:
absolute SAS beginnersAnyone interested in taking SAS BASE certification exams

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Instructor Details

sharon cheng

Welcome to SC Statistical Programming!
Before I become an online SAS programming instructor, I have worked as a statistician/SAS programmer for 7 years. I am a SAS certified professional and highly proficient in SAS programming, and I enjoy teaching as well. Now I would like to use my SAS programming skills to help people learning SAS in an easy and affordable way.
I created my business SC Statistical Programmingto offer free SAS programming courses and tutorial videos and coding articles, as well as affordable online video-based SAS programming courses at various levels. No matter you are a beginner or experienced professional in SAS programming, all courses are designed to help you learn SAS programming easy and efficiently.
Information about my current published courses:
A SAS BASE certificate course for absolute SAS Beginners
SAS Advanced Certificate: SAS SQL, SAS Macro & Advanced Tech
SAS Programming on Report and Table Generating
All courses offer:
1. Lifetime access 24/7; 30 days money back guarantee!
2. Each lecture/video shows hands-on coding in SAS programming environment as well as detailed step-by-step and code-by-code explanations
3. The course supplements (including SAS codes and data used in lectures) are in their own formats and stored in Zip folders for easy downloading
4. The SAS code and data are compatible across all SAS programming environments
5.

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By Hillary Rogers on 11/15/2020

This course is SO MUCH BETTER than some of my required courses in my masters' degree in just explaining the PROC statements. There is no need to overcomplicate it; just learn the fundamentals THE RIGHT WAY. Would recommend this course to ANYONE interested in SAS

By Priyanka Acharya on 11/8/2020

It has been a good experience so far.

By Anastasia Mitromara on 11/1/2020

The material and the exercises are of good level and you can tell a lot of effort has been put in the course. However there are some things that could be very confusing for real beginners e.g. we learn about complex topics like arrays and do loops before we learn what the proc print does that's being used in pretty much every coding example. The order of the examples and names of the coding files have changed over time so that's confusing as well. Finally, the accent of the presenter is very difficult to understand (even the captions don't help) which makes it harder for beginners to follow what the presenter says. If I wasn't an experienced user and I hadn't paid just 20 for the course, my rating would have been much lower.

By Usha Viswanathan on 10/11/2020

Took the course, done within 2 weeks, attended the Base SAS exam and cleared. I can say almost 90% topics were covered in the course. It will be helpful if you can take up Base SAS practice exams also.
Now looking forward to take the Advanced SAS course from Sharon.

By Shafi Ur Rahman on 10/7/2020

Gave four rating as I have only started.but instructor support is excellent she responds to your queries very fast .will give five if satisfied at the end of course

By Riddhi Oza on 10/7/2020

1) The slides are too wordy and the tutor simply reads it. So can't focus on what is actually going on
2) Rather than showing live examples, the tutor shows all the written examples. We don't need tutor for it. We can simply read theory and read the codes
3) At some places, I saw that tutor has not provided to the queries saying it's not on top of her mind (question was to print odd and even chars in a string)
4) Pace is too slow making the video too lengthy. No voice modulation
5) Content is also not good for a beginner

By Kai Lei on 10/5/2020

clear instruction

By Jyoti Jalan on 9/26/2020

It is a good match, as I was looking for a SAS course which is taught slowly and step by step. Perfect for a very new learner like me.

By Krsi-Szab Tams on 9/24/2020

Knowledge is building in step by step and focusing to practice.

By Bissenty DIOKOU on 9/23/2020

Oui

By Silvio Colombini on 9/21/2020

Completamente soddisfatto. Da migliorare la traslazione in sottotitoli dell'audio: alcune parole vengono rese, nei sottotitoli, in modo errato. Se per caso si fa la traduzione in un'altra lingua i risultati possono essere abbastanza strani. Ad esempio un "step guide" e "code by code" sono stati presi come "sad" e "combat code"...e quindi si arriva ad avere una "triste guida al codice di combattimento"
Non do 5 stelle piene solo per un motivo: si da per scontato che lo studente abbia delle piccole conoscenze di informatica pregresse; sia chiaro: veramente piccole e si rimedia ragionando un filo o guardando con attenzione i filmati. Ma per il resto tutto perfetto!

By Adam Raymond on 9/20/2020

Good, what I expected