How can a new hire/intern make a good impression?

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Published on 2010-05-06T04:35:36Z Indexed on 2010/05/06 4:38 UTC
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In a week I start at my first real programming internship for a multinational company, I want to know, aside from "hard work" what can I do to prepare for this? How do I be a good new employee?

(FYI, my first assignment is to help the team with "enhancements to our test driver to automate our regression testing" on an air traffic control system written in ADA)

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