Chapter 3. Understanding Objective-C Protocol and Table View

In the previous chapter, we had a fair enough introduction of the Core Data framework and its components. We also learnt about the Data Model and its different terms including Entities, Properties, Attributes, Relationships, Inverse Relationships, and so on. We also explored the concepts of the Managed Object Model, Managed Object, and Managed Object Context. Finally, we saw the relationships among different components of Core Data API: Persistent Store, Persistent Store Coordinator, Fetch Request, and FetchedResultsController. Besides this, we also had a quick overview of the entire application that we will be building in this book from chapters 4 through 11.

As said in Chapter 1, Overview, for a better understanding of the Core Data, we need to have a good knowledge of two important concepts: How classes can adopt various protocols in Objective-C and knowledge of how information is displayed via Table View control. So, before...