Intention is to distribute demonstration files just like Wolfram Demonstrations (mainly dynamic manipulations with assisting textual explanations based off on Numerical Methods course lectures).
If distributing as notebook/cdf is not practical, web-apps is also another option to try. Regardless would like to lock all back-end code visibility from the user.
Please advise.
Manipulateexpression into a new notebook and distribute the copied stuff. If theManipulatehas been written so that its code is self-contained, i.e., doesn't depend on code in other cells to run, you will get what you want. – m_goldberg Feb 15 '19 at 16:24Encodea security measure but maybe it just fits your need: https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/q/86674/5478 – Kuba Feb 15 '19 at 19:23