What will I be able to do upon completing the Specialization?

You will be able to import and export raw data files, manipulate and transform data, combine SAS data sets, and create basic detail and summary reports using SAS procedures. This specialization prepares you for the SAS Certified Base Programmer for SAS 9 certification exam.

Is this course really 100% online? Do I need to attend any classes in person?

This course is completely online, so there’s no need to show up to a classroom in person. You can access your lectures, readings and assignments anytime and anywhere via the web or your mobile device.

Can I just enroll in a single course?

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. 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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SAS Programmer Professional Certificate

Launch Your Career with a SAS® Credential.

Master the skills required for the SAS® Base Programmer certification.

Instructors: Peter Styliadis +1 more

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4 course series

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Beginner level

Recommended experience

Flexible schedule

2 months at 10 hours a week

Learn at your own pace

Build toward a degree

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

Skills you'll gain

Category: Computer Programming
Category: Data Access
Category: Data Analysis
Category: Data Cleansing
Category: Data Import/Export
Category: Data Integration
Category: Data Manipulation
Category: Data Preprocessing
Category: Data Presentation
Category: Data Processing
Category: Data Transformation
Category: Data Validation
Category: Debugging
Category: Descriptive Statistics
Category: Exploratory Data Analysis
Category: SQL
Category: Statistical Analysis
Category: Statistical Programming

Tools you'll learn

Category: Microsoft Excel
Category: SAS (Software)

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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 1, 22 hours

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.

Skills you'll gain

Category: SAS (Software)

Category: Data Manipulation

Category: Data Import/Export

Category: SQL

Category: Data Validation

Category: Exploratory Data Analysis

Category: Descriptive Statistics

Category: Statistical Programming

Category: Microsoft Excel

Category: Data Preprocessing

Category: Data Analysis

Category: Data Access

Doing More with SAS Programming

Course 2, 23 hours

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.

Skills you'll gain

Category: SAS (Software)

Category: Data Manipulation

Category: Data Transformation

Category: Data Processing

Category: Data Presentation

Category: Data Integration

Category: Descriptive Statistics

Category: Data Analysis

Category: Data Cleansing

Category: Statistical Programming

Category: Debugging

Preparing for the SAS Programming Certification Exam

Course 3, 16 hours

What you'll learn

In this course you have the opportunity to use the skills you acquired in the two SAS programming courses to solve realistic problems. This course is also designed to give you a thorough review of SAS programming concepts so you are prepared to take the SAS Certified Specialist: Base Programming Using SAS 9.4 Exam.

Skills you'll gain

Category: SAS (Software)

Category: Data Manipulation

Category: Data Import/Export

Category: Statistical Programming

Category: Debugging

Category: Microsoft Excel

Category: Data Access

Category: Data Analysis

Category: Data Preprocessing

Practicing for the SAS Programming Certification Exam

Course 4, 10 hours

What you'll learn

Skills you'll gain

Category: SAS (Software)

Category: Data Analysis

Category: Data Manipulation

Category: Data Transformation

Category: Data Import/Export

Category: Statistical Programming

Category: Data Validation

Category: Exploratory Data Analysis

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Build toward a degree

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

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.

Instructors

Peter Styliadis

SAS

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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.

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