This course is designed for programmers who need a solid foundation for programming in SAS in a condensed timeframe and who can learn at an accelerated pace. The course teaches you SAS programming essentials, such as creating SAS data sets and writing summary reports, as well as data manipulation techniques. It teaches you to use the macro facility to reduce development and maintenance time for your programs. It also teaches you to use SAS SQL processing techniques to write basic queries and subqueries and to output query results. Although this course pulls from
SAS Programming 1: Essentials,SAS Programming 2: Data Manipulation Techniques,SAS Macro Language 1: Essentials
, and SAS SQL 1: Essentials, it does not cover all topics from these four courses.