SAS short courses, offered over two consecutive days consist of introductions to traditional SAS programming (Day 1) and SAS Enterprise Guide (Day 2). SAS Enterprise Guide is an easy-to-use Windows application that provides access to much of the functionality of SAS using an intuitive and visual interface. It allows transparent access to data, provides ready-to-use tasks for analysis and reporting and easy ways to export data and results to other applications.

When you use SAS Enterprise Guide, you are also using SAS software behind the scenes. SAS Enterprise Guide can connect to SAS on your local computer, or it can connect to SAS on another computer called a SAS server. As you access data and build tasks, SAS Enterprise Guide generates SAS code. When you run a task, the generated code is sent to SAS for processing and the results are returned to SAS Enterprise Guide. Enterprise Guide enables you to easily run existing SAS programs, using similar steps to what you would follow using the SAS windowing system.

It is recommended that if you have no knowledge of SAS currently that you take both days courses. If you already know SAS programming at some level, you may attend Day 2 only.

The courses are organized in two sessions each day, each session consisting of a 75 minute presentation followed by a hands-on 75 minute lab assisted by the instructor and TA's. We plan to use SAS on our lab 1105 Snedecor Hall consisting of terminal servers and thus you are discouraged from using your own laptops.

There is a fee of $10 per day (or $20 for both days) to cover expenses, to be paid by check (made payable to Iowa State University) or cash to Denise Riker, Marlene Tjernagel, or Jeanette La Grange (1121 Snedecor). Lunch is on your own. Enrollment is limited to the first 40 people who sign-up. Please send an e-mail with name, affiliation, and ISU e-mail address, to riker@iastate.edu to reserve a place. A detailed schedule will be provided after you sign-up.