When we wrote the sixth edition of The Little SAS Book: A Primer, one of our goals was to write it for all SAS programmers regardless of which interface they use for coding: SAS Studio, SAS Enterprise Guide, the SAS windowing environment, or batch. This is harder than it sounds. […]
Using variable names with special characters was published on SAS Users.
The most fundamental concept that students learning introductory SAS programming must master is how SAS handles data. This might seem like an obvious statement, but it is often overlooked by students in their rush to produce code that works. I often tell my class to step back for a moment […]
Learning to think like SAS was published on SAS Users.
Whether you enjoy debugging or hate it, for programmers, debugging is a fact of life. It’s easy to misspell a keyword, scramble your array subscripts, or (heaven forbid!) forget a semicolon. That’s why we include a chapter on debugging in The Little SAS® Book and its companion book, Exercises and […]
What’s wrong with this code? was published on SAS Users.
If you have been using SAS for long, you have probably noticed that there is generally more than one way to do anything. (For an example, see my co-author Lora Delwiche’s blog about PROC SQL.) The Little SAS Book has long covered reading and writing Microsoft Excel files with the […]
Accessing Excel files using LIBNAME XLSX was published on SAS Users.
In case you missed the news, there is a new edition of The Little SAS Book! Last fall, we completed the sixth edition of our book, and even though it is actually a few pages shorter than the fifth edition, we managed to add many more topics to the book. […]
Test your SAS skills with the newest edition of Exercises and Projects for The Little SAS Book was published on SAS Users.
One great thing about being a SAS programmer is that you never run out of new things to learn. SAS often gives us a variety of methods to produce the same result. One good example of this is the DATA step and PROC SQL, both of which manipulate data. The […]
Expand Your SAS Knowledge by Learning PROC SQL was published on SAS Users.
The next time you pick up a book, you might want to pause and think about the work that has gone into producing it – and not just from the authors.
How many people does it take to publish a book? was published on SAS Users.
As a fellow student, I know that making sure you get the right books for learning a new skill can be tough. To get you started off right, I would like to share the top SAS books that professors are requesting for students learning SAS. With this inside sneak-peak, you […]
Top 5 SAS Books for Students was published on SAS Users.