A source of interesting assignments for teaching 8th graders programming?

Question

Programming

Actually, I was faced with the task of helping a person with computer science. I achieved some progress in this field, if earlier he simply rolled the code from examples and did not understand anything at all, now he is able to solve problems from the book on his own. The only but - in the book are rather boring and dull tasks. When I took a break from the book and set the task to write a game (rolling the dice and guessing the number that fell out), I saw a very large outbreak of interest in everything that was happening. Alas, my imagination ran out on this, because I am 1) not a programmer, 2) this is my first teaching experience in my life 3) I am not familiar with Pascal syntax.
In general, maybe someone can give an indication of a manual or a textbook on this topic, where there are tasks with graphics, games, robbing cows and stuffing houses.
Thank you for your attention.

Answer 1

It would be good to start studying algorithms and data structures in the book www.ozon.ru/context/detail/id/24903185 and start preparing for the exam. Knowledge of algorithms and data structures allows you to solve the most interesting problems.
You can set the drawing of graphs of functions, Tetris, snake, sea battle, field of miracles.
It still makes sense to switch to python from pascal. True, I don’t know if it’s possible to write an exam in python, it seems like it was possible.

Answer 2

rolling the dice and guessing the number drawn

You know: I, too, have already become interested!))))
It is important to understand at the beginning: what we want to achieve at this stage of training and, based on this, think about tasks that can teach this.
Target->Material->Problem->Solution

Answer 3

An airplane takes off from the left border of the screen and flies to the right. If the airplane spratalsya for the right border, after 1-5 sec. a new one pops up.
Below is a cannon that shoots if you press the space bar. The outgoing projectile flies at a speed 2-3 times higher than the speed of the aircraft.
Task: to write such a toy)