Core Data in Objective-C, 3rd Edition

Chapter 1Building a Foundation

There’s an interesting challenge when you’re writing a book for what is effectively a subsystem. How does one describe the subsystem without being distracted by the overall system that it intended to interact with? This is the problem that we’re solving in this first chapter of the book. In this chapter we aren’t going to talk about Core Data; instead, we’re going to, very quickly, build up an app for our Core Data work to interact with. We can then use this application throughout most of the rest of the book to run and play with while learning about Core Data.

On our journey to learn about Core Data, we’re going to use an original iPhone recipe application. While the application itself is fairly complex and ...