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• Welcome
• Entering and executing a program
• The do-file
• The interactive program command
• A program in a do-file
• Combination do-files
• Ado-files
• Organizing do-files
• An individual do-file
• A do-file to perform verification
• Infiling data
• Reproducibility
• Indexing
• assert as an alternative to branching
• Consuming calculated results

• Macros
• How macros might be used
• Macro names
• The related-persons example
• Another example (plant data)
• Potential problem—variable scope
• More on arguments
• Branching and looping
• Physical program style
• foreach
• Looping across observations
• if

Course leaders are available for discussion during the break.

• Data management example
• Handling time and date variables
• Checking assumptions
• Returned values and storing results
  • What can be returned in r()?
  • Referring to returned results in other programs
  • Referring to returned results in the program that sets them
• Bootstrapped standard errors
• Aside: reading a trace
• A warning on bootstrapping
• Speeding up bootstrapping
• Bootstrapping, how to
• Monte Carlo simulations
• postfile and post
• Using quietly
• Speeding up simulations

• A first real ado-file
• discard
• More improvements to doanl
• capture
• The exit command
• Making doanl a general tool
• Writing a help file for doanl
• Do-files, programs, and ado-files: When to use which
• Temporary variables
• Temporarily destroying data
• Temporary files
• An analysis-specific ado-file
• General-purpose (GP) ado-files
• A GP ado-file
• Fine-tuning display output
• Stata syntax
• syntax
• varlist macro
• syntax’s other specifiers
• Whether to use syntax
• A note on quotes
• Version control