Learning SAS by Example: A Programmer's Guide

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Customer Reviews:

Good for starters [Posted on 2008-06-01]
I found this manual very useful, it has a lot of the required basics to quickly get comfortable with SAS coding. I highly recommend it.

A great book for beginners to Intermediate users [Posted on 2008-06-04]
I have used SAS only sparingly over the years, and had a basic knowledge from taking a beginners course about 3 years ago (3 days costing more than $2,000).

However, I learnt more sitting with Ron Cody's book over the last two weeks than I did on that course. This book is great for self-paced study to get an understanding of how SAS works.

Gripes? The fact that only every second question has an answer is annoying, but understandable (to a degree) given that the book can be used as a study tool for schools.

Overall, I'd definitely recommend this book for anyone wanting to be able to move forward with their SAS careers!

Poor copy quality [Posted on 2008-07-01]
No doubt about that this book itself is great. However, the paperback book Amazon shipped to me was very poor. There are about 20 pages missing and more than 20 pages that are double coped. The book was new though.

I have ordered 7 or 8 books on Amazon in total. This is the first time I met such bad thing happen. I am kind of hesitate to make any more order on Amazon. Hopefully I won't have bad luck in the future.

Great for preparing for a job and SAS Base exam [Posted on 2008-08-30]
When I started learning SAS from this book, I had two goals in mind:
1. Improve my SAS skills for a SAS programmer job.
2. Pass SAS Base certification exam.

I decided to use this book and not SAS Certification Prep guide because SAS certification Prep Guide wouldn't teach me how to program like Cody's book did. Cody's book gives lots of exercises to practice.

However, when I took a SAS practice exam, I felt Cody's book didn't prepare me enough in the following areas:
- reading raw data from external files;
- subsetting and combining datasets.

So I borrowed SAS Certification Prep Guide from a friend and read chapters on those topics. And I passed the exam.

I also agree with the other reviewer saying that Cody's exercises are rather simple. I found other Cody's book (Applied Statistics and the SAS programming language) more challenging and it contained answers to ALL exercises, not just odd-numbered; but maybe this was because it was my first SAS book.

All in all, I find this book very useful, because I haven't seen other book that would give you exercises along with solutions to half of them. Programming is like math: you need to practice in order to be good at it.

not so good [Posted on 2008-09-20]
i have waited so long time but i cannot receive my book.
i am not happy

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