Chapter 2. Understanding Core Data
In this book, we'll learn how to build a Sales Record Keeping System application using Core Data through a step-by-step approach. So, this chapter will give us an introduction to the following topics:
Core Data framework and its features
The data model and how it defines the structure of data in terms of entities, properties, and their relationships
Model-View-Controller (MVC)
Core Data API and its main components
An overview of the application that we will be building in this book and a glance at the different application views and the tasks performed when different controls in these views are selected