It depends on the country he exists in, the standard of education in some developing country isn't as standard as developed countries, most of them teach only theories and less practical, not to mention about online interactions and collaborations. Computer programming as a discipline sounds vague too, it doesn't depict any specialization from him since programming has different areas of competence and career paths. From his introduction, he's not specialized, but I can be wrong as well.
A country's educational system won't be the same, but at the same time as someone who is studying a course, especially something that's just theory like programming, there are assignments you do which will give you some certain level of experience, including your research work, no matter how poor and educational settings is there are things which will appear very unusual for someone who studied and graduated under a certain field not to have basis knowledge about.
There are some courses that theoretical teaching is limited to just to introductory stage of your study, computer science is part of such courses that deal mainly on practical.
The ops have a good course that, he will definitely be useful in the forum in the near future if he have that knowledge of a programmer as stated in the ops, we have some few forum members who studied computer science or are programmers and we see the incredible contribution through their development like some bots and tools that we use in the forum.