SAS Learning Post
Technical tips and tricks from SAS instructors, authors and other SAS experts.![Are you curious about George McDaniel?](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2011/10/gmc111.jpg)
He’s quick-witted, fit, and skilled with the written word, but there are many layers to SAS Press acquisitions editor George McDaniel. And George’s colleagues have taken the liberty of revealing some unique qualities of this multi-talented man. George's SAS Press superlative is: a) most likely to develop a conspiracy theory.
On the SAS Dummy blog, I often receive questions that smack of homework assignments. After all, SAS programming is taught in universities (and even high schools) around the world. So I didn't consider it unusual when I received this question recently: Write a short DATA _NULL_ step to determine the
![SAS author's tip: differences between IMLPlus and the IML Procedure](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2011/09/Wicklinbook.jpg)
SAS superstar Rick Wicklin and his book Statistical Programming with SAS/IML Software inspired this week’s SAS author’s tip. Besides earning stellar reviews from SAS users, Rick is one of those highly productive people who stands out in whatever role he’s undertaking—from senior research statistician developer at SAS to developer of
![Updating your global style](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2017/01/ProgrammingTips-2.png)
Every six months or so I try to find a recent picture that captures who I am and what I am feeling. Loading this into my various social/online profiles in Twitter, SAS Community, Forums, LinkedIn, corporate internal, Facebook etc then take me a bit of time to implement. Wouldn't it
![A man called Bloom and my take on him](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2011/09/Thinker1.jpg)
Wondering about Bloom and what he has to do with SAS programming. For any learner, he is someone to respect. For anyone wishing to learn more about the levels of the learning process, this is the master. Bloom classified cognitive, a big word for thinking skills, into 6 broad categories.
![SAS author's tip: macro functions %EVAL and %SYSEVALF](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2011/09/Burlew_watercooler2.jpg)
One of of my favorite reviewer quotes about Michele Burlew's book SAS Macro Programming Made Easy, Second Edition is" [ It ] helps eliminate the 'fear factor' often associated with using macros, while offering valuable insight to programmers with a broad range of experience." --Suson vonLehmden, RTI International I've worked with Michele Burlew