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# Step-by-step SAS programming guide Fast-track from beginner to intermediate Hands-on exercises for skill-building Learning SAS by Example: A Programmer's Guide

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> 📊 Unlock your SAS potential — code smarter, not harder!

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## Key Features

- • **Ideal for self-paced study:** Perfect for busy professionals dedicating a few hours intermittently to upskill efficiently.
- • **Clear, progressive learning:** Start from zero and build solid SAS programming skills with logical, easy-to-follow chapters.
- • **Practical exercises included:** Engage with concise, real-world coding tasks that reinforce syntax and concepts immediately.
- • **Trusted by learners worldwide:** Highly rated with 4.3 stars and recognized as a top resource in Mathematical & Statistical Software.
- • **Focused on SAS Base programming:** Master core data manipulation and presentation without getting lost in advanced statistical jargon.

## Overview

Learning SAS by Example: A Programmer's Guide is a well-structured, beginner-friendly book that teaches SAS Base programming through clear explanations and practical exercises. It helps readers progress to an intermediate level by focusing on data manipulation and presentation, making it an essential resource for professionals aiming to master SAS programming fundamentals efficiently.

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Review: The best place to start for SAS beginner programmers - This book is probably the best place to start if you want to learn SAS programming. You can literally start on page one and work your way through the book. By the end of the book you will be a good intermediate programmer but by no means an advanced programmer. The book is about programming, manipulation of data and presentation of data. You will not learn about statistical analysis at all. Macro programming and Proc SQL are only touched very briefly at the end of the book. This means you have to by separate books to learn those topics. But it is a good idea to read the book before starting on Macro programming. What I like the most about the book is that it is very easy to read and almost everything is well explained. Every chapter ends with a number of exercises and I choose to do almost all of them. The exercises are short and generally easy. In most cased you just have to modify an example form the book to do the exercise. This means the exercises are good to teach you the syntax in the programming. But they are not advanced enough to teach you how to structure advanced programs or think for yourself. The books downside is that it is printed in black and white which is annoying where you read the SAS code. Although it is a less of a problem in this book than in most other programming books printed in black and white. It is apparent that book is getting quiet old. The syntax of the code has not changed, but the book are based on SAS base and not SAS EG which is going to be SAS's primary editor in the future. This means that all the nice features of SAS EG are not mentioned.
Review: If the strange mysteries that govern the workings of SAS confound you... - I've taken three graduate stats classes that had the students use SAS to do the work. Each prefaced itself by the statement "this is not a programming class." The teacher showed examples of doing multiple linear regressions, logistic regression, Poisson regression, etc., but otherwise we were on our own. What a frustrating trip! Not only does SAS use an ancient 1970's style programming architecture, they reuse keywords radically differently in different contexts, think of data tables differently from other familiar software, and their online help is vast and a mystery in itself. Over half the time I spent in class was just trying to figure out how SAS worked. So I bought this book. It doesn't teach statistics. It teaches the programming architecture behind the software. It does this very well with a logical progression, clear examples, and well-chosen exercises (half with programming solutions). Dedicate a few hours every other day for a few months and SAS will become a useful tool, not a complete burden. Make sure you get the CD. You need it for the datasets used in the exercises.

## Features

- Used Book in Good Condition

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
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| Best Sellers Rank | #666,065 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #101 in Mathematical & Statistical Software #2,220 in Computer Science (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.3 out of 5 stars 100 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The best place to start for SAS beginner programmers
*by K***K on August 4, 2013*

This book is probably the best place to start if you want to learn SAS programming. You can literally start on page one and work your way through the book. By the end of the book you will be a good intermediate programmer but by no means an advanced programmer. The book is about programming, manipulation of data and presentation of data. You will not learn about statistical analysis at all. Macro programming and Proc SQL are only touched very briefly at the end of the book. This means you have to by separate books to learn those topics. But it is a good idea to read the book before starting on Macro programming. What I like the most about the book is that it is very easy to read and almost everything is well explained. Every chapter ends with a number of exercises and I choose to do almost all of them. The exercises are short and generally easy. In most cased you just have to modify an example form the book to do the exercise. This means the exercises are good to teach you the syntax in the programming. But they are not advanced enough to teach you how to structure advanced programs or think for yourself. The books downside is that it is printed in black and white which is annoying where you read the SAS code. Although it is a less of a problem in this book than in most other programming books printed in black and white. It is apparent that book is getting quiet old. The syntax of the code has not changed, but the book are based on SAS base and not SAS EG which is going to be SAS's primary editor in the future. This means that all the nice features of SAS EG are not mentioned.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ If the strange mysteries that govern the workings of SAS confound you...
*by C***R on July 18, 2013*

I've taken three graduate stats classes that had the students use SAS to do the work. Each prefaced itself by the statement "this is not a programming class." The teacher showed examples of doing multiple linear regressions, logistic regression, Poisson regression, etc., but otherwise we were on our own. What a frustrating trip! Not only does SAS use an ancient 1970's style programming architecture, they reuse keywords radically differently in different contexts, think of data tables differently from other familiar software, and their online help is vast and a mystery in itself. Over half the time I spent in class was just trying to figure out how SAS worked. So I bought this book. It doesn't teach statistics. It teaches the programming architecture behind the software. It does this very well with a logical progression, clear examples, and well-chosen exercises (half with programming solutions). Dedicate a few hours every other day for a few months and SAS will become a useful tool, not a complete burden. Make sure you get the CD. You need it for the datasets used in the exercises.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great book
*by U***X on January 31, 2014*

I use SAS a lot in my job, and this book was really a great help in learning tha basics. It's easy to understand, clear and concise, with plenty of examples and exercises. You should work thorugh it, write every program and do every exercise (you remember a lot more if you actually type all the code), otherwise you will miss some of the basics. But of course, you could just skip to what you need to for a specific purpose.

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