Your company has announced a Hackathon project with different internal teams. You are participating in the Hackathon project. You have written a script to predict store's future sales and only have 1 hour left before the project ends.

Review these articles:

SAS Programing Guidelines.pdf

Guidelines for Coding of SAS Programs.pdf

You need to follow all the scripting standards and then present the project to the team lead. Your scripts should have at minimum below standards.

Comments

Variable naming standard

Use of comments to present module description

Use comments to explain conditional logic

Use comments in the header section. Please review the screenshot below.

PROGRAM NAME

DESCRIPTION

CALLED BY

CALLS TO

PROGRAMMER

DATE WRITTEN

INPUT FILES

OUTPUT FILES

MODIFICATIONS

DATE

CHANGE #

PROGRAMMER

DESCRIPTION

Include comments with each DATA step and PROC.

Proper indent for each script statement.

Calculate the script efficiency or execution time (Insert transaction time at beginning and then insert transaction at the end and then calculate the difference in minutes.

Remove any uninitialized variables.

Display proper error messages with the actual error code.