[abecedarius]

They address this by supplying implementations. In principle you could do most of the course backwards, though I haven't heard of anyone doing it that way.

[wollw]

And, in fact, they even say so.

> The lectures, book chapters and projects are highly modular and one can pursue subsets of them in any order and scope.

From the course's site's about page: http://www1.idc.ac.il/tecs/about.html