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2. Core Data Basics and Setup

Avi Tsadok1  
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Tel Mond, Israel
 

Code is not like other how-computers-work books. It doesn't have big color illustrations of disk drives with arrows showing how the data sweeps into the computer. Code has no drawings of trains carrying a cargo of zeros and ones. Metaphors and similes are wonderful literary devices but they do nothing but obscure the beauty of technology.

—Charles Petzold

Like any other good design, we need to start with infrastructure to understand Core Data and create a good setup process.

Many developers are concerned about the Core Data ...

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