If you know a little bit of programming already, "programming in SAS" is easier than that for other purposes. But SAS is more than just programming, and a good statistical knowledge is rather important than just programming.

Recently, Enterprise Guide (EG) software for SAS has reduced the need of programming tremendously for general users of SAS. Most analyses these days with EG are through menus and virtually no 'writing codes' is needed.

However, SAS is so vast that the programming aspect will always remain important.

Bottomline, "just programming" should be easy.