Notepad going the way of the dinosaurs?

Recently I've come across several web designers who have no idea how to code 'by hand'. The prevalence of WYSISYG (what you see is what you get) editors makes it too easy for anyone to pump out, what they think, is an awesome website.

I'm a purveryor of Dreamweaver myself, but tend to write code by hand instead, merely utilizing the dreamweaver interface and a few bells and whistles it provides. 

Never learning the basics in the beginning, leads to code bloat (excessive code), code which does not validate acoording to the W3C, and code that is not accessible.  

Seems to me, people should learn the basics before they move on to the world of cut-and-paste design.