Faced an Interview

I was looking for an opportunity to work as an intern after my second year. So, I was told about this company name iPhonik which deals with netoworking and customer calls automation stuff.
I was interviewed by the owner of the company and selected me to be an intern for about 3 months and then hopefully I could have a job there. He asked me about machine learning (which I'm currently studying as a hobby) and C# .NET technologies.
However, on the way home, I had a call from Pearson Lanka which is a big and famous company and asked me if I'm available for an internship. I said yes. Well, I only passed the interview at iPhonik right...
So, now, I am in kind of a ambiguous situation where I can't really figure out where to go. In the begin, I was thinking of joining the WSO2 or Pearson and then a friend set up an interview with iPhonik and then I got selected there and then... Oh! What to do?
I just called Sameera and Prabhath for some guidance and they had different opinions about my situation.
Sammera told me, no matter how hard it would be, even if I'm not getting paid, I should join with a company like Pearson or WSO2 for my internship. Because it would be good for my job interviews later. I know that. But, I am in a financial crisis now. So, NO!
Prabhath said, I should go to iPhonik. Event if it is still a starting up company it's not that small. Also, unlike with the big companies, there's a possibility that I may get a job within about 3 months and I can learn many fields in IT. In a big company, I would just do something common everyday and specially, they wouldn't let me do series stuff for a while.
So..., I decided to choose iPhonik. It's not like I'm gonna be there forever right!
I can work there for like two years or so. I can do my best for the company. Maybe even help iPhonik become one of the biggest company in the country.
I can do my A/L meanwhile and make my self qualified for the third year of my degree program which I currently have postponed just because I failed one subject in A/L which is not even related to the field of my degree. Damn you Sri Lanka!!!
It's gonna take me two years just to do my third year now.

2018|2019 - Internship and then hopefully the job
                    A/L exam to get at least 3 passes. (Even if I have 3.9 GPA in my second year)
                    Learn some Arduino and Machine Learning
                    Collect money for the third year (I don't think that's possible though)

2020         -  Third year at SLIIT or Curtain university (Maybe Cyber Security other than SE)
                    Software developer job

I hope this would work!

Python Anaconda

I am doing machine learning on both windows 10 and linux. For linux, I use python 3.7 which is currently the latest with TensorFlow and for windows 10 I use python 3.6 with Anaconda and R for data science.
In that way I can learn both methods. Apparently, it doesn't matter if you already have python installed in your computer when you are going to install anaconda. You still can install anaconda with it's packages separately. I installed anaconda via Visual Studio and after testing that I am going to install anaconda separately. I also installed numpy and matplotlib via VS. You also need to set paths for python and anaconda to use it in command line interface globally and to directly run the script in Visual Studio Code which is really comfortable.

What Next?

I'm at my vacation after the 2nd year of my degree program.

I started Software Engineering degree program at SLIIT after leaving Quantity Surveying behind and it's been going good. Actually, I was one of the best students there. Now, the second year is over.
I decided to learn Machine Learning during my vacation specially because that was the reason I entered into the industry and it's the new sexy these days :-) . Anyway, I'm currently working on some c# applications for some of my customers too.

So, now I am in the very basics of ML and I am training ML with Ubuntu so that I can learn to work in a Linux environment while studying ML. Clever me...!

ML is all about mathematics with probability and statistics.
So far, I had to learn statistics and regression(linear regression, etc.). I still have many more math to study. But, many of students think that it can be hard because it contains math. Seriously, if you don't like to play with a little math, you shouldn't be doing computer science at all. Mathematics is fun and very exiting if you really give it a thought other than just parrot up the theories.
However, I'm still undergoing the lessons from internet. I really need to minimize the time I put into watch movies and stuff. I'm like addicted to movies and tv dramas.
I'm not saying that it's a bad thing to do. But, everything has a limit right?