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Need a bit of help [SAS analysis]

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I'll leave the back story at the end if you're interested at all, but here's the point: I need to learn SAS by tomorrow, I'm not going to sleep anyways, and was wondering if anyone is proficient with SAS here, knows a site that can teach me SAS better than this god awful user's manual, or anything that can help me learn SAS quickly.

Back story: Ever since the end of school I've been looking for a job to cut a few grand off loans. I would prefer to work in a lab but those spots are always taken by volunteers looking for rec. letters. I kept sending CVs everywhere and got a few interviews and rare offers. Out of those offers was one that offered excellent pay, suspiciously high pay for a summer job for that matter. So I go in for the interview and the job description was "An individual that has learned higher math and comfortable with computer programming... etc." Math is simple to me and I'm pretty sure I can pass matrix algebra; in addition, I know several computer programming codes by heart and can search anything unusual on the internet, so I thought this would be great. I sit around on the computer and just do stat analysis for this company all day while surfing SRF and get payed for it. So I walk in and get the interview and thought it went very well, however they tell me I need to know SAS programming. Apparently every C++ and COBOL position was taken. Noooo clue what SAS is, definitely not in the list of languages I know.

At this point I BS and say I have dabbled in it a bit and am prepared to learn anything I'll need to know. They said they'll consider me and that was that, last Friday. Well I didn't think I had a shot because I'm sure they'll find someone with SAS knowledge and didn't think anything more of it. However, today they call me and accepted me to the position. They asked me if I can start tomorrow and I replied, 'I'm at the SAS station correct?' They answered, 'yes'. So basically I got a SAS manual and need to learn all thousand some pages by tomorrow unless someone here knows a good site that has the basics or a fast way to learn this. I'm looking for tested or known sites that are good and fast and not the third page off google because that was the first thing I tried. So far nothing and I've resigned to reading the manual, anyways, I thought I'd give SRF a try since I know some people out there might do this stuff and can give me a hand on MSN or something. Or send me nudies to keep me up. Er, awake.

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SAS? err, joining the army ?
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Fake amnesia; if they don't hire you sue them for discrimination against your mental disability.
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lmao
dom
too funny

but ya SAS?
ehm wat is tat
lol im in computer programming too
at the unversity
but never heard of tat
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all i can say is good luck. it'll be like cramming for an exam all over again. if u'r rusty tmr, just tell them u haven't done SAS in a while.
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Inuyasha584 wrote:SAS? err, joining the army ?

if you actually read what she said, SAS is apparently a programming language, not the famed British Special Air Service.

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