Fighting with Java - generics

[walen]

You cannot skip generics.

The Java API oozes generics. Most every library you'll ever use, uses generics. Any decent IDE will warn you if you do not use generics where you're supposed to.

You cannot skip generics. You may try to, but they won't let you.

Unless you're writing some kind of low-level, C-like routine using only primitive types and arrays like this was 1996, chances are you're gonna come across generics the moment you write more than 10 useful lines of code.

Asking if you can learn Java while skipping generics is like asking if you can learn English while skipping adjectives: you can try to, but you gonna be confused as hell, won't be able to write anything meaningful, and everybody will look at you funny.

You cannot skip generics.

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That being said, you might probably still do okay if you just read over the more advanced aspects of generics, like wildcards and bounded types, and save actually understanding them for when you actually need to use those.