What PRIMM Is in Programming Education
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EDITOR BRIEF
PRIMM is a teaching framework that helps learners move from reading code to writing code. It has five stages: Predict, Run, Investigate, Modify, and Make. The excerpt says it was introduced by Sue Sentance in 2017 and later studied with results showing better understanding than traditional learning methods.
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For beginners, PRIMM is useful because it breaks coding into smaller steps instead of jumping straight to writing programs. Try using it with a simple code sample: predict what it does, run it, then change one part and observe the result.
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