Ask HN: Syllabus for web technologies 101?

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16 years ago

My girlfriend is enrolled in summer session at Berkeley. She signed up for "Web Architecture" class (http://courses.ischool.berkeley.edu/i153-waim/su10/) and got the following syllabus:

- HTML 4 & 5 - Cascading Style Sheets - Internet Protocol / DNS - URIs / HTTP - Client Side Scripting - HTML II - Basic Web Apps - AJAX - Server Side Scripting - Content Types / Data Exchange - Browsers - State & Local Storage - Privacy - Security

For me, it feels really outdated. Anyone can read documentation! Do we really need thousands of graduates who know how DNS works and do not know Rails/cloud/mobile? And many modern topics are completely missed:

- jQuery, other javascript frameworks - web frameworks: rails, djnago - cloud (AWS, GAE, ...) - mobile web: iPhone/Android/iPad - social apps... - payments - overview of APIs (e.g. Facebook, Google, YQL, Twilio, Paypal, Google Maps...)

What's your take guys? What should / shouldn't be in "Web Technologies 101"?

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