Totally agree on not having newbies learn to code in a browser. There are so many intangible things that they need to learn to actually produce anything meaning

Totally agree on not having newbies learn to code in a browser. There are so many intangible things that they need to learn to actually produce anything meaningful aside from typing the code itself. People I know who have tried codeacademy or something similar complain that they are just typing "magical" words that produce effects on the screen. Perhaps a way to remedy this is to have them actually download the source files after a lesson is done or something so they can see what they've actually created, outside of the course's blackbox framework.