What is your true purpose of promoting his post here in the beginners guide? Did you idolize him?
Did you tried to check his trust feed back first here
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;u=317618 before you idolize this man.
ICO's are new projects and almost all ICO's are scam but not all.
There is no way to know if the ICO project is scam or not the only way to prove it is to ask them if they can provide of real project via github otherwise they are scam project.