On-line active learning workshops were conducted on December 5 and 12, 2020 on 
developing programing skills. The events targeted secondary education students and pre-university students. 20 individuals attended the events, that had a total duration of 6 hours.
Basics of programming was taught through 3 sorting algorit
hms: bubble sort, count sort and, merge sort. Students not only learned the Python programming language, they also learned how to solve problems through computational thinking. The Google Colab environment was used as the programming IDE.
In the workshops, students first became familiar
with sorting algorithms. Subsequently, they followed a step-by-step process for transferring their ideas into programmable code. And finally, they were challenged to code the algorithms in a programming environment.
