both wired and wireless computer networks
have significant importance. In addition, we are entering
the world of big data analysis, where a lot of data is transferred
from the sources to given computing centers for further
processing. This trend requires changes in the computer science’
computer networking curriculum in order to prepare the students
with market opportunities and challenges after graduating. The
Computer Networks (and / or data communications) course, or
the whole knowledge area of networking and communication in
general, are supposed to be a core part of computer science and
net centric computing. Given the fact that these students prefer
to learn software oriented courses, the Universities have to make
the course more interesting and sophisticated enough to follow
today’s trends.
In this paper, we present a new adaptive curriculum for the
Computer Networks course. The students have the opportunity
to choose between a practically or theoretically oriented course.
Our intention is to make the most of the learning objectives
in the course more practical and thus initiate increased interest
of the students. However, the core part of theoretical lectures
about low level reliable data communication is obligatory for
both approaches.