While I do agree that it depends on your learning style, many people like working throught the examples when studying a tutorial or taking a course.  If you are interested in SAS OnDemand for Professionals, you can find a bit more of information about it here (including pricing): http://support.sas.com/learn/ondemand/professionals/index.html SAS OnDemand for Professionals gives customers access to SAS hosted server where you can run through practice exercises and access data used in many of the SAS e-learning courses. It is currently only available in the US at the moment, but if you reside in antoher country you can join an interest list to be notified when it becomes available using the link above. ... View more