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Anslol

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SAS Certified Programmers, Need Help
« on: 09 Sep 2013, 10:38 »
http://www.sas.com/

Anyone familiar with this software? I want to get certification in it, as it'd be great for my current job and as a resume builder. However...training seems to cost anywhere from $990 to $5,000+.

I do not exactly have a few spare thousand lying around for this. For those of you who are SAS certified, how did you learn/train for the exam? Any free/cheaper training materials you'd recommend?

EDIT: ISK COMPENSATION FOR HELP?
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AOkazon

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Re: SAS Certified Programmers, Need Help
« Reply #1 on: 09 Sep 2013, 12:35 »
Quote from: Anslol on 09 Sep 2013, 10:38
http://www.sas.com/

Anyone familiar with this software? I want to get certification in it, as it'd be great for my current job and as a resume builder. However...training seems to cost anywhere from $990 to $5,000+.

I do not exactly have a few spare thousand lying around for this. For those of you who are SAS certified, how did you learn/train for the exam? Any free/cheaper training materials you'd recommend?

EDIT: ISK COMPENSATION FOR HELP?

I kinda hate SAS, I'd just learn to SPSS instead. (If I could actually help I would)
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Anslol

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Re: SAS Certified Programmers, Need Help
« Reply #2 on: 09 Sep 2013, 12:41 »
Clinical trials mostly stays within SAS. Why do you dislike it? The few tutorials I found for free on the SAS site seem very straight forward. Like, stupidly so. Is it just annoying to format data sets for SAS to understand? Is it a problem with OLAP Cubes?
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Re: SAS Certified Programmers, Need Help
« Reply #3 on: 10 Sep 2013, 06:49 »
Lack of a GUI. I'm a scientist, I don't know how to code.
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Anslol

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Re: SAS Certified Programmers, Need Help
« Reply #4 on: 10 Sep 2013, 07:38 »
Whaaa? SAS Enterprise has a GUI. Project trees and uploaded files/libraries show in a process tree that you can modify to spit out stuff you need O-o
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Re: SAS Certified Programmers, Need Help
« Reply #5 on: 10 Sep 2013, 09:35 »
I must have been using the shit version, then. :) The thing I was expected to make use of was basically just a scripting window.
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Anslol

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Re: SAS Certified Programmers, Need Help
« Reply #6 on: 10 Sep 2013, 10:23 »
Oh yeah, it's come a long way since then.
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Re: SAS Certified Programmers, Need Help
« Reply #7 on: 10 Sep 2013, 10:45 »
I'm a scientist and I like programs that work with a scripting window. <,< Can't help with SAS, though, sorry.
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