Looking at that syllabus, it covers a lot of useful topics for web apps: sockets, threads, TCP and UDP, the major application protocols (HTTP!), cryptography, authentication...
and Web 2.0... WTF!... I'm sorry but that's a ridiculous topic to have in a college networking course. Is "Web 1.0" a prerequisite?
Yeah the gimmicky feel counts against it (also the lack of web 2.0 slides compared to the other topics...maybe they just show the youtube bubble video?) But I know a guy who works at Google and has taken it and says he learned a lot, and I guess I'm willing to assign some baseline level of blind trust to a Googler.
and Web 2.0... WTF!... I'm sorry but that's a ridiculous topic to have in a college networking course. Is "Web 1.0" a prerequisite?