Flexible Chapter Ordering
The book provides flexible chapter orderings to enable GUI, Exception Handling, generics, and the Java Collections Framework to be covered earlier.
GUI Early
Chapter 9, Chapter 12, Chapter 13, Chapter 10, Chapter 14, Chapter 15, Chapter 16
Exception Early
Chapter 9, Chapter 17, Chapter 18
Data Structures Early
Chapter 9, Chapter 10, Chapter 21, Chapter 22
Flexible Chapters After Chapter 16
Many of the chapters after Chapter 16 can be covered in any order. The following diagram shows the chapter dependencies.
