<s>
AgentCubes	B-Language
is	O
an	O
educational	B-Language
programming	I-Language
language	I-Language
for	O
children	O
to	O
create	O
3D	O
and	O
2D	O
online	O
games	O
and	O
simulations	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
main	O
application	O
of	O
AgentCubes	B-Language
is	O
as	O
computational	O
thinking	O
tool	O
teaching	O
children	O
computational	O
thinking	O
through	O
game	O
and	O
simulation	O
design	O
based	O
on	O
the	O
Scalable	O
Game	O
Design	O
curriculum	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
AgentCubes	B-Language
was	O
developed	O
with	O
support	O
by	O
the	O
National	O
Science	O
Foundation	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
AgentCubes	B-Language
is	O
inspired	O
by	O
AgentSheets	B-Language
which	O
introduced	O
modern	O
drag	O
and	O
drop	O
blocks	O
programming	O
in	O
1995	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Most	O
notably	O
,	O
AgentCubes	B-Language
transitioned	O
from	O
2D	O
to	O
3D	O
design	O
including	O
highly	O
accessible	O
3D	O
modelling	O
technology	O
called	O
Inflatable	O
Icons	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Historically	O
,	O
both	O
AgentSheets	B-Language
and	O
AgentCubes	B-Language
are	O
rooted	O
in	O
an	O
early	O
prototype	O
of	O
parallel	O
programming	O
for	O
children	O
running	O
on	O
a	O
Connection	O
Machine	O
2	O
,	O
a	O
massively	O
parallel	O
supercomputer	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
notion	O
of	O
massively	O
parallel	O
computing	O
carried	O
over	O
to	O
AgentCubes	B-Language
but	O
leaving	O
out	O
the	O
need	O
for	O
supercomputing	O
hardware	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
AgentCubes	B-Language
Desktop	O
(	O
2006	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
AgentCubes	B-Language
Online	O
(	O
2012	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
AgentCubes	B-Language
Online	O
has	O
been	O
used	O
in	O
large	O
National	O
Science	O
Foundation	O
teacher	O
professional	O
development	O
scale	O
up	O
projects	O
nationally	O
in	O
the	O
US	O
and	O
through	O
the	O
support	O
of	O
private	O
foundation	O
in	O
countries	O
such	O
as	O
Mexico	O
,	O
and	O
Switzerland	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
AgentCubes	B-Language
online	O
is	O
now	O
available	O
in	O
English	O
,	O
Spanish	O
,	O
German	O
,	O
Italian	O
and	O
French	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
With	O
the	O
goal	O
to	O
shape	O
computational	O
thinkers	O
and	O
not	O
necessarily	O
programmers	O
AgentCubes	B-Language
,	O
and	O
AgentSheets	B-Language
before	O
it	O
,	O
have	O
the	O
goal	O
to	O
be	O
computational	O
thinking	O
tools	O
and	O
not	O
programming	O
tools	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
AgentCubes	B-Language
extended	O
this	O
notion	O
by	O
including	O
tools	O
that	O
would	O
make	O
3D	O
modelling	O
accessible	O
and	O
even	O
include	O
the	O
ability	O
to	O
3D	O
print	O
objects	O
created	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Programming	O
in	O
AgentCubes	B-Language
is	O
based	O
on	O
an	O
IF/THEN	O
parallel	O
conditional	O
rule	O
formalism	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Similar	O
rule-based	O
tools	O
are	O
ToonTalk	B-Language
,	O
or	O
Microsoft	O
's	O
Kodu	B-Application
.	O
</s>
