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This course is the complete SAS BASE programming certification preparation course. It is designed for anyone who desires to develop SAS programming skills and enter into data industries. Many data industries are eagerly hiring SAS professionals with the SAS BASE programming certification. If this is your goal, this course is right for you.
This course is the complete SAS BASE programming certification preparation course. It is designed for anyone who desires to develop SAS programming skills and enter into data industries. Many data industries are eagerly hiring SAS professionals with the SAS BASE programming certification. If this is your goal, this course is right for you.
This course is suitable for absolute SAS beginners
the course is designed for anyone interested in passing the SAS BASE certification exams
(1) SAS Certified Specialist: Base Programming Using SAS 9.4 (Exam ID A00-231)
this course covers all the topics in the exam.
(2) SAS Certified Associate: Programming Fundamentals Using SAS 9.4 (Exam ID A00-215)
it is the junior version of A00-231 , this course covers more topics than required in the exam
A00-215 is NOT the prerequisite of A00-231.
Many students enrolled this course directly passed the full SAS 9.4 Base Programming (A00-231).
Course Highlights:
step by step/ code by code detailed explanations for easy and efficient learning experiences
well organized course contents
The downloadable course materials for each lecture are attached for every lecture of the course for students' convenience. (the course materials are ONLY for practice, they are protected by copyright.)
Quizzes, coding exercises and projects for practice. After all, practice makes perfection.
A Note on Course ratings and reviews:
Many students enrolled in this course successfully passed the full They have shared their successful stories with me. I am so encouraged and grateful that this course can serve as a main resource to help them obtaining the SAS BASE certification. Please share your successful stories and joys of this significant career devolvement achievement in course reviews to encourage others and me.
I constantly updating the course according to SAS certification updates as well as students' suggestions. Good and fair course reviews and ratings are truly encouraging me continuously improving the quality of the course. Course ratings above 4.5 are considered good ratings in this field.
Again, Thank you so much for choosing this course and allow me to be part of your success.
References:
SAS certification prep guide: base programming by SAS Institute
The little SAS book: a primer / Lora D. Delwiche and Susan J. Slaughter
Learning SAS by example: a programmer's guide / Ron Cody
Note:
The course was created using SAS software license for the SAS University Edition (the downloadable SAS studio version).
The course is also suitable to use with SAS OnDemand for Academics (the web-based SAS studio version).
The software interface/appearance and functionalities in the two SAS studio versions are identical.
Section 2 has all the details for using SAS OnDemand for Academics with this courses.
This lecture shows everything you need to know about how to use SAS OnDemand for academics/cloud-based SAS studio with this course including three steps:
Step 1. How to download course materials (SAS program, data file and PowerPoint slide for each lecture) from each lecture
Each lecture has its own downloadable lecture materials under resource which contains
(1) SAS code for the lecture (.sas file)
(2) data file used in the lecture (the file can be in different formats). A few lectures don't have external data files
(3) PDF file: Power Point slides in PDF format contain knowledge points for each lecture and is presented at the beginning of the lecture.
Step 2. How to upload the SAS programs and data files into SAS OnDemand for academics/cloud-based SAS studio in order to run SAS programs
Step 3. How to modify the file path in SAS programs, and run SAS programs using data files in SAS OnDemand for academics/cloud-based SAS studio
To modify the file path in SAS programs, there are 4 examples, which cover all the scenario you will encounter when modifying the file path in SAS programs
example 1 (infile example): start at beginning of the lecture
example 2 (proc import example): start at about 6:30 of the lecture
example 3 (libname format example): start at about 12:40 of the lecture
example 4 (create sub-folder example): start at about 17:50 of the lecture
(1) length for gender_ac in the code gender_ac = gender||'/'||(gender_code);
gender_ac occupies 14 because
gender occupies 1, gender_code occupies 8, ||'/'|| occupies 5 (|| occupies 1, '/' - 3, || occupies 1)
(2) After running the same code in SAS ondemand (web-based SAS studio), we found there are spaces in the values of gender_ac, and gender_char is not left-aligned.
(The result shown in the video (without above issues) is the one when I used SAS University (an expired installed SAS studio). I found a couple of incidents that these two type of SAS studio acts differently, this is one of them. )
To resolve this, we can add LEFT function to left align the values of gender_code (we can tell the values of gender_code are right aligned -- this is the reason why we got spaces in gender_ac, and not left-aligned gender_char )
Here is the code:
/*add LEFT function to left aline gender_code*/
data scoredata2;
set scoredata0;
gender_ac = gender||'/'||left(gender_code); /*auto*/
gender_char = put (left(gender_code), 8.); /*put*/
run;
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