The article fits pretty well here. The headline wants the reader to believe a lemonade stand can pay for a surgery like this. This neoliberal “you can do anything if you work hard enough” is a real problem, especially when its carried by a statement thats a plain lie. Articles like this manipulate against healthcare and should be criticised.
I started in my second semester of physics. I used linux since i was ~12, since i couldnt afford windows, but never got into coding/scripting. I was pretty much a casual linux user from 2010-2017. I did a C/C++ beginner course with some friends and i had a lot of fun. The following semesters i did a lot of advanced courses and learned the command line. Now im about to begin my computational science M.Sc.
I use Xournal++ for all of my teaching.