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Summary: great way to learn SAS
This package, software and booklet, provides a great and affordable tool for leaning SAS. Unlike most educationally priced software, SAS LE does not require you to be a student in a degree granting program, and/or prove it with a student ID. Personally I am very impressed by the fact that SAS recognizes that "official" students are not the only ones trying to learn on a budget. The software is limited in that you can only display and process the first 1000 rows of your dataset, however this will be sufficient for most of the intended audience for this product, who are simply interested in learning how to use SAS. Another drawback is that the software expires, and will apparently not operate after December 1, 2008, so the value of the product diminishes with time before you buy it. The enclosed booklet is helpful, but not very in-depth, and you will probably want to buy the little SAS book or some other resource to get the most out of this product. You can see what procedures the software is capable of at support.sas.com/le, and there are some links to additional resources there too. For those who used the first edition of this software, you will probably be pleased to know that the annoying cartoon genie help character is gone, which makes the interface look a lot more professional if nothing else. Overall this is a great educational tool for learning SAS, and I highly recommend it.
Summary: SAS Learning Edition 2.0 (SAS/EG 2.0 & SAS 8.2)
The SAS Institute has finally released a limited (record limit and expiration date) version that is affordable to anyone.
If you want to brush up on old job skills or pick up some new job skills - this is an excellent tool for just that. Employees with SAS experience are fairly difficult to find - on either a contractor or direct hire basis. While the expiration date was set (@ something like) 4 years from the original release of this product - it would have been nice for a 'floating' 4 year time period (from original install) - at the price it certainly isn't a deal breaker. The most commonly (mainstream) used SAS Modules are included - and +95% of SAS Code migrates between OS without any change. So, you can use this on a Windows PC - and apply what you've learned at work on Unix, MVS, CMS, or any of the other gazillion or so OS. About 10 years ago - I created a SAS program to generate Web Page 'indexes' for (Digitized) Rolls of Film or (other) Digital Images. The end result is a CD you can view/select/print photos with a simple Web Browser. While it runs in about 30 seconds each time - it's nice to be able to do this at home rather than in the office - or rewriting the program in another (more affordable or stand alone) language.
Summary: Underwhelming
Make no mistake about it, SAS is a great product. But this CD and manual leave alot to be desired. The SAS webpage made it sound like this SAS|LE 2.0 CD would be robust, but with limitations to the amount of records you can use (to prevent it from being used instead of the real product). That is what I wanted: an app that taught me many of the features from SAS|base, SAS|stat and SAS|graph. It turns out SAS Learning Edition is a very stripped down SAS|base. The only thing it teaches is where to find the menus on the User Interface. The few simple descriptive statistics that you can put together are done just as easily in Excel or in free spreadsheet packages.
If Mr. Goodnight wants more people to use his subscription-based products, he is going to have to motivate his people to put together something better. I want SAS|LE to help reduce the learning curve of the real product and show me which features each module has with samples. What you are paying $79 for here is little more than a kiosk DEMO disk.
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