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SAS Learning Edition 1.0 by: SAS Institute
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Binding: CD-ROM Dewey Decimal Number: 005 EAN: 9781590470640 Edition: Pap/Cdr ISBN: 1590470648 Label: SAS Publishing Manufacturer: SAS Publishing Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 200 Publication Date: 2002-06 Publisher: SAS Publishing Studio: SAS Publishing Buy at Amazon

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Average Rating: Rating: - This is in response to the Morganton, GA review With regard to not being able to enter code, etc., the traditional way, there is a way to do it. After installation, SAS puts an Enterprise Guide shortcut on your desktop. Don't use this--go to Program Files/SAS Institute/SAS/V8 and you will see the icon for the SAS application (grey triangle with blue swirl and red dot). It will open SAS the way you are referring to, and you can write code in the editor, view the log and output. So far this has been a great way for me to learn the ropes! Rating: - Good intro to the world of SAS The SAS learning edition is a good intro into the SAS world. SAS skills are definitely on demand and many people are interested in it but availability remains a problem due to prohibitive pricing. The learning edition would allow you to test the waters relatively cheap. The output is limited to 1000 rows but that's more than sufficient for a learner. The companion book that comes with it leaves a lot to be desired though. I had brought the SAS learning edition from sas.com Unfortunately, I didn't knew that it was available through amazon.com and was charged ~$140 with taxes and shipping. amazon.com charges $125 with free shipping. I would recommend the product who want to learn about SAS. Also, for a solid intro, get "The Little SAS Book". Rating: - Looking forward to version 2.0 I'm giving SAS Learning Edition, version 1.0, 4 stars ... but I'm grading on a curve. Before I get any further in writing this review, let me briefly go over my experience with SAS: A few years ago I used a fully functional SAS version 8 for financial econometrics. Having gotten that out of the way, here are my two cents on this Learning Edition. First of all, I applaud the SAS Institute for coming out with a learners' edition of SAS for people's home PCs. Considering the advances in desktop computing over the last 20 years and the obvious benefits of promoting a product like SAS to a wide a group of numerate potential users out there, I'm frankly shocked that SAS Institute didn't do this sooner. When I was in school (which was not that long ago), the only thing that I could get for my personal computer from SAS was JMP, a misguided product which has no obvious purpose in the age of Excel with VBA add-ons being able to tackle much of what JMP can do and considering that JMP is too wimpy to compete with higher-level statistical/mathematical software applications like SAS itself. The non-availability of a learners' version of SAS was particularly bizzare considering the fact that other competitive applications like SPSS, Mathematica, Matlab, Maple, etc., have had learners' versions for several years prior to SAS' efforts. Heck, statistical/mathematical software like R and Octave are absolutely free! So I'm glad that the SAS Institute has done what they did. BUT - as many of the more critical and skeptical reviews before mine have pointed out - version 1.0 of this product definitely has some weaknesses. Those weaknesses include some annoying bugs as well as unreasonably limited functionality. To be fair to SAS, it is not fair to expect them to offer full functionality at this relatively (relative to a SAS license) inexpensive price, especially with what is suppose to be a learning edition. However, there is a fine line between protecting the SAS franchise and not offering the degree of functionality that rationally should be offered to: (a) help learners truly learn SAS, and (b) wet people's appetites for fully functional SAS. To further expand upon point (b), what if a student or a novice professional started playing around with a better, more functional version of SAS LE. When they get into a work environment and a set of problems arises, that person who was using a version 2.0 of this product could suggest to his/her boss that "Hey, SAS can handle this problem" instead of some other software package and/or programming in VBA, C++, Java, etc. So my fervent and sincere hope is that the SAS Institute is listening - and judging by a couple of the posts, they seem to be - and come out with a new and improved version 2.0 of this product. So, if the SAS Institute is listening to my measured, fair, and even toned review, then I hope that they will put out a version 2.0 of this product that: (a) Is priced at an affordable level (please remember the days when you were a hungry student or a lower-level professional); (b) Adds more functionality; (c) Fixes the bugs; (d) Has better documentation gratis; and (e) Isn't over-bearing in promoting non-'traditional' SAS interfaces ... After all, this software is suppose to help people familiarize themselves with the full power of SAS and not simply a dumbed-down, wimpy point, click, fill-in-the-blank interface. If potential users really wanted the later, then they could simply use Excel (possibly with some add-ons and/or VBA code) instead of SAS. Rating: - Don't waste your money The SAS Learner edition is virtually useless for most purposes. There doesn't appear to be a way to code it directly (you have to use the "Enterprise Guide"), the output is not in the same format as the regular version, it's very picky about printers (the graphs won't print on my printer and will not "print to file" to be printed from there either), and it does NOT come with a useful manual even though the product description implies that it does. And worst of all, it does not help you to learn how to really use SAS software. This is a total waste of money! Rating: - Clarification of Review from Leicester, UK. As the Product Manager for the SAS Learning Edition, I would like to clarify the posting by a reader from Leicester, UK. Their concern was that the ability to view data tables has been removed. The SAS Learnign Edition does provide an enhanced method of viewing tables in the Data Grid display area of Enterprise Guide. Enterprise Guide is the new preferred Windows interface for SAS that comes with the SAS Learning Edition and provides comprehensive data viewing from the Data Grid.

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