SAS Programmer Professional Certificate

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SAS Programmer Professional Certificate

Launch Your Career with a SAS® Credential. Master the skills required for the SAS® Base Programmer certification.

Instructors: Peter Styliadis

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4 course series

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4.8

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2 months, 10 hours a week

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4 course series

Earn a career credential that demonstrates your expertise

4.8

(3,051 reviews)

Beginner level

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Flexible schedule

2 months, 10 hours a week

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Build toward a degree

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What you'll learn

Understand and use the fundamentals of the SAS programming language
Access different types of data (SAS, Excel, or text), then explore and prepare the data
Analyze and report on data and export results to common formats (HTML, PDF, Excel)
Apply SAS programming principles in practical examples

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Professional Certificate - 4 course series

When you complete the SAS® Base Programming courses, you will have demonstrated skills in manipulating and transforming data, combining SAS data sets, creating basic detail and summary reports using SAS procedures and identifying and correcting data, syntax and programming logic errors. These skills prepare you for the SAS® Base Programming Specialist certification exam.

Applied Learning Project

In the last course of this professional certificate program, you complete projects that demonstrate your knowledge of SAS programming. In the first project, you write programs for each stage of the SAS programming process to analyze passenger claims at United States airports. In the second project, you use your knowledge of the data preparation stage to write programs that restructure world tourism data.

Getting Started with SAS Programming

Course 124 hours4.8 (3,073 ratings)

What you'll learn

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.

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Category: SAS Programs

Category: Reports

Category: Prepare Data

Category: SAS Studio

Category: Import Data

Doing More with SAS Programming

Course 225 hours4.8 (933 ratings)

What you'll learn

This course is for business analysts and SAS programmers who want to learn data manipulation techniques using the SAS DATA step and procedures to access, transform, and summarize data. The course builds on the concepts that are presented in the Getting Started with SAS Programming course and is not recommended for beginning SAS software users.

In this course you learn how to understand and control DATA step processing, create an accumulating column and process data in groups, manipulate data with functions, convert column type, create custom formats, concatenate and merge tables, process repetitive code, and restructure tables. This course addresses Base SAS software. Before attending this course, you should be able to write DATA step code to access data, subset rows and columns, compute new columns, and process data conditionally. You should also be able to sort tables using the SORT procedure and apply SAS formats.

Preparing for the SAS Programming Certification Exam

Course 316 hours4.8 (136 ratings)

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Practicing for the SAS Programming Certification Exam

Course 49 hours4.8 (91 ratings)

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Instructors

Peter Styliadis

SAS

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When you complete this Professional Certificate, you may be able to have your learning recognized for credit if you are admitted and enroll in one of the following online degree programs.¹

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This Professional Certificate has ACE® recommendation. It is eligible for college credit at participating U.S. colleges and universities. Note: The decision to accept specific credit recommendations is up to each institution.

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Frequently asked questions

It will take approximately 20 weeks to complete the SAS Programming Specialization.

No prior programming or SAS experience is required.

Yes, you should start with Getting Started with SAS Programming, then move on to Doing More with SAS Programming and finish with Practical SAS Programming & Certification Review.

Yes! To get started, click the course card that interests you and enroll. You can enroll and complete the course to earn a shareable certificate, or you can audit it to view the course materials for free. When you subscribe to a course that is part of a Certificate, you’re automatically subscribed to the full Certificate. Visit your learner dashboard to track your progress.

SAS Programmer Professional Certificate

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