An innovative multidisciplinary approach to the teaching computer networks and cybersecurity

This contribution deals with the proposal of a new approach to the teaching of computer networks-oriented subjects. The main focus is to implement a multidisciplinary approach, with which we want to increase the quality of teaching, reform the study content, and motivate students of networking subjects to study programming and cybersecurity. This created article summarizes the current state of teaching, identifies existing deficiencies and, in the form of recommendations, proposes a new methodology for solving deficiencies and updating the content. Part of the proposal is the identification of important areas of informatics (computer networks, cybersecurity, programming, database systems, machine learning and development of android applications), technologies, and the variety of designed sample tasks to demonstrate the importance of connecting students' knowledge from several areas of informatics. The practical outputs of the work are as follows: created study materials in the form of PDF documents, annotated source codes of sample solutions and a website with educational content. The created materials were tested in university and high school teaching by a total of 198 participants, of which 4 were teachers and 194 were students aged 15 to 24. More than 86% of these students evaluated the created materials positively and would be interested in expanding the current educational content. Based on the received feedback, it is possible to claim that the issue should be further addressed, and an effort should be made to integrate it into the teaching process.