I'm a web developer for a year and I have a work experience girl coming in on Monday that I have to babysit.

she probably won't know how to code. what to do?

Get her interested in coding!

I think she has to contribute something to the business.

For how long will she stay? Is just for the day or a longer period?

Get her involved there is nothing worse than work experience people coming and being bored out of their heads.

Find out how much they know. They may surprise you. Then ask them what they hope to gain from the experience.

It'd be cool if you could get them involved not something that will go into production. ( I know this is hard) but it really inspires them.

Good luck let us know how it goes.

1 week

I ask because last time my office had a work experience student, he had 2 weeks of doing the most boring crap in the world.

@craig939393 the boring crap really puts them off. I work with work experience people at our spot. I get them involved I may have to work work late to get other stuff done but I try to inspire. I had the boring shit when I was a junior dev so I know what it feels like.

My philosophy is if they show willing I will teach them as much as I can. I'm no programming God and never proclaim to be. If I can inspire someone to be better than me I have done my job right.

I once had two work experience kids coming in for 3 days. I gave them the task to do a small game with scratch. They loved it and want to start IT. I don't know if you can do something like that, but definitely give them small tasks where they can see what they have achieved in a small window of time

Get her to signup to codecademy, build a simple site, produce something