Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 Overview........................................................................................................................1-3
1.2 Course Logistics...........................................................................................................1-5
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Objectives
Define SAS.
Describe the functionality of Base SAS.
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What Is SAS?
SAS is a suite of business solutions and technologies
to help organizations solve business problems.
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Why Use SAS?
SAS enables you to do the following:
access and manage data across multiple sources
perform analyses and deliver information across your
organization
Base SAS is the primary focus of this course.
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What Is Base SAS?
Base SAS is the foundation for all SAS software.
Base SAS provides the following:
a highly flexible, highly extensible, fourth-generation
programming language
a rich library of encapsulated
programming procedures
a choice of programming interfaces
Base SAS
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1.01 Multiple Choice Poll
What is your programming experience with SAS?
a. maintaining programs written by others
b. writing new programs
c. no experience
d. other
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Objectives
Describe the data that is used in the course.
Specify the naming convention that is used
for the course files.
Define the three levels of exercises.
Explain the extended learning for this course.
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Orion Star Sports & Outdoors
This course focuses on a fictitious global sports and
outdoors retailer that has traditional stores, an online
store, and a catalog business.
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Orion Star Data
Large amounts of data are stored in various formats.
1,000
employees
150,000
orders 90,000
customers
64 suppliers
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Program Naming Conventions
In this course, you use the structure below to retrieve
and save SAS programs.
❶ course ID p104d01x
❷ chapter #
❸ type
a=activity
d=demo
e=exercise
s=solution
❹ item # Programming 1, Chapter 4, Demo 1
❺ placeholder
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Locating Data Files
In this course, macro variable references are used
to give a more flexible approach for locating files.
%let path=s:\workshop;
infile "&path\[Link]";
infile "&path\[Link]";
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Three Levels of Exercises
The course is designed to have you complete only one
set of exercises. Select the level that is most appropriate
for your skill set.
Level 1 Provides step-by-step instructions.
Level 2 Provides less information and guidance.
Challenge Provides minimal information and guidance.
You might need to use SAS Help and
documentation.
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Extending Your Learning
After class, you have access to an extended learning
page that was created for this course. The page includes
the following:
course data and program files
a PDF file of the course notes
other course-specific resources
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