What might be cool is to actually create a 'simulator' that puts people through the process of 'purchasing' a server, domain name, and through the actual server and DNS configuration up to the point where you can get a 'success' page on a server, then have them add some code and show them how all the files interact with each other.
Then teach them how to code the files.
Maybe after that something like a whole MEAN/LAMP stack development course. Personally I think the technologies used in MEAN are easier to understand and you can do a lot of neat things with angular in just a few lines of code. An interactive angular course would be really awesome. But people definitely need to know how to interact with a database. What would be nice would be to actually learn MEAN and LAMP side by side to actually understand the differences, but I guess that's diverging from the 'beginner friendly' approach.
Then teach them how to code the files.
Maybe after that something like a whole MEAN/LAMP stack development course. Personally I think the technologies used in MEAN are easier to understand and you can do a lot of neat things with angular in just a few lines of code. An interactive angular course would be really awesome. But people definitely need to know how to interact with a database. What would be nice would be to actually learn MEAN and LAMP side by side to actually understand the differences, but I guess that's diverging from the 'beginner friendly' approach.