For example, PROC IMPORT recognizes the filename ACCOUNTS.WK1 as a Lotus 1 spreadsheet and the filename MYDATA.CSV as a delimited external file that contains comma-separated data values. PROC IMPORT ...

This repo provides an overview of SAS programming. For the initial data setup, I downloaded the zip file from coursera, and ran the SAS program CourseraStartupCode.SAS. Both are in the github repo.

You can use various methods to import data from different sources, such as Excel, CSV, text, or database files. You can use the Import Data wizard, the PROC IMPORT statement, or the LIBNAME ...