Attention Educators and Students in the Americas - Free Programming Certification Guided Prep Series

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Join us for this 12-week series to prepare to take a Base Programming Certification exam. We'll cover the SAS Programming 1: Essentials and SAS Programming 2: Data Manipulation Techniques courses, as well as general exam preparation.  

We’re excited to kick-off our series next week. We’ll meet every Wednesday from Sep 4 – Nov 20, 2024, 4:30 – 6:00 p.m. EST. Our weekly live online sessions will include demos, Q&A, and discussions. On your own schedule, complete e-learning videos and exercises. Attend at least eight live sessions and complete the e-learning to receive a free certification voucher! 

Read more about this series here and register by 12 pm EST on Aug 30th, 2024.  

As you navigate through the series, we encourage you to use this post to ask any questions and collaborate with other attendees.   

[antonbcristina]

Today is our first day and we're excited to welcome over 300 attendees for our first session of the series. We’ll walk you through an overview of the Certification Series, provide you with resources and a GAP Overview, and start covering some content right away. See you all at 4:30 pm! 

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Welcome back to class today! To ensure you’re ready for this week’s discussion, please complete the following from Programming 1: Essentials: 

• Lesson 1.3 | practices, activities 

• Lesson 2 | practices, activities 

• Lesson 3 | e-learning (lectures only, no practices/activities) 

We're happy to answer any question you might have as you're going through the content. See you all in class! 

[antonbcristina]

Glad to have you all back for Week 4! Rachel will lead tomorrow’s session with a focus on Lesson 4: Preparing Data. We’ll get practice with the DATA step and learn how to use it wisely for our data processing. To best prepare for class, please review the following from Programming 1: Essentials:  

• Lesson 3 | all | practices, activities 

• Lesson 4 | all | e-learning  

Please post any questions that come up as you're going through the content. See you all tomorrow!