My fourth grade programming students are getting started with programming the Sphero 2.0. The first impression of the ball is very toy like and I let the kids "play" with the robot in remote control mode. The second time the students were working with the Sphero I introduced them to the macrolab app. This allows me to set controls to 'be executed line by line.
I set up a super fancy course on the floor with masking tape. I set two start points and the students worked in parallel. They wrote and tested the program line by line. Some of the macros were more useful than others. The students discovered many features as they worked, and they were much more focused once I drew out to course.
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