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In the age of Rs and Pythons, SAS is still the unconquered leader at least in the domain of Banking and Finance. SAS as a statistical package shares many similarities with Mainframe systems. Even after the rise of cloud computing and Distributed systems, Banking & Finance domain couldn't completely move away from Mainframe systems and the same is true with SAS too.

Hence it's important for an aspiring analyst to learn SAS (at least Base SAS) but how do we do that. SAS is an expensive package and that actually makes it tough to get your hands-on with SAS. But as open source counterparts like R & Python are growing, SAS has come down with a Free University Edition to attract help students. Let's use it and get started with SAS.



Learn How to install SAS University Edition on VirtualBox or VM Player

Fine, we've got the tool the play with but what to do with it? That's exactly what Ron Cody's book teaches us.
Learning SAS by Example: A Programmer's Guide


This is an excellent book with amazing flow of chapters. There couldn't be any better book other than this to get started with SAS. Happy learning :-)