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Finished my first little game jam game over the weekend, built in C++ with SplashKit, same library as SIT102. It's a bad space shooter but it runs. Game jams are the most fun way to practise programming, happy to team up for the next one.
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Duc Tran
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Tutor at Deakin, incoming intern at Atlassian
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As a SIT102 tutor: the students who pass comfortably are the ones who type out every lecture example themselves instead of just reading it. Muscle memory is real for syntax. 20 minutes a day beats a 6-hour panic session.
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I got my Atlassian internship without a referral, so here is what a referral actually changes and what it does not. It changes: a recruiter reads your resume instead of a filter. It does not change: the online assessment, the technical interview, or the values interview. So ask for a referral only once your resume is ready, not as a shortcut. What worked for me: SIT232 project on GitHub with tests, two mock interviews from the SIT102 community, and a DeakinTALENT resume check. If you want a referral from anyone on here, send a finished resume and a specific role, not just 'can you refer me'.
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A referral gets a human to read your resume; it does not replace assessments or interviews. Get the resume ready first, then ask with a specific role.
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How I got the Atlassian internship as a year 3 with no prior experience: I tutored. Teaching data structures to first years forced me to actually understand them, and 'casual academic tutor' on a resume starts conversations. Apply to tutor the moment you finish a unit with a D or HD. The bar is lower than you think and the pay beats retail. Then in interviews, every 'explain X to me' question is literally your day job. Three of the five Atlassian behavioural questions I answered with tutoring stories.
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Tutoring a unit you did well in is an underrated internship strategy: it deepens your understanding, pays well, and gives you interview stories.
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Java tip for OOP students: stop fighting the compiler and start reading the error messages top to bottom. 90% of the questions I get in labs are answered in the first line of the stack trace.
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Reminder for year 1s: the maths units feel disconnected from programming until SIT215. Then suddenly graph theory is pathfinding and probability is machine learning. Keep your notes.
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