Because SAS Enterprise Guide is a graphical user interface, writing about it required a little different approach. SAS Enterprise Guide is a point-and-click interface to the SAS System which is another way of saying that it writes SAS code for you. Next came The Little SAS Enterprise Guide Book. The book needed to be small and non-threatening, explain the fundamental concepts, cover each topic in just two facing pages so you could see an entire topic at a glance, contain programs that are complete and executable so you could run them and see the results, include explanatory graphics, and avoid jargon as much as possible. Our vision for The Little SAS Book was based on our experience helping people write and debug SAS programs. We named this book The Little SAS Book as a joke since, at the time, the term “little SAS book” was an oxymoron. The SAS Language: Reference manual by itself was nearly 2 inches thick and weighed four pounds! This was the environment in which we conceived the idea of a small book that would be easy to use and would cover the most popular and important features of the SAS programming language. When we started writing The Little SAS Book in 1992, the typical SAS programmer had a shelf full of SAS manuals that could be measured in linear feet. The Little SAS Book for Enterprise Guide covers SAS Enterprise Guide, a point-and-click interface to SAS. The original The Little SAS Book: A Primer is an accessible and easy-to-read guide to the SAS programming language while its newest sibling, Exercises and Projects for The Little SAS Book Sixth Edition gives readers practice applying what they learn from the original book. These days there are three books in The Little SAS Book family, each with a different purpose.
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