Computer literacy is a fundamental vocational skill these days, required by a majority of professions that would otherwise have little or nothing to do with computer programming. You don't have to write code to be in the finance industry, for instance, but you'd better be able to write spreadsheets and documents, or you won't have a job.

Computer programming is an entirely different skill set, so I don't know why the author would conflate the two, except for maybe that he's an education blogger and not a technology expert, who is quoting source whose expertise is also education, not technology.