This is an intro talk given to the Iowa Mobile Developers in March 2012. The talk covers the basic CRUD operations of Core Data, and touches on some of the strengths and weaknesses of Core Data.
The included HelloCoreData Xcode project is a trimmed version of the Core Data template project included in Xcode 4.2. The Detail view controller has been removed, and a simple jibberish property has been added to the Event object.