This is real.
https://www.tv-tokyo.co.jp/home_ii/lineup/202401/23052_202401142030.html 
It's a good example that everyone can learn programming -out of all higher education courses, I feel CS is the one which is very easy to learn from home and anyone from 4 to 94 can pick it up.
But I hope that this 50-year-old ojisan (can I call him that, I am also old 😅) is just having programming as a hobby but not obsession.