Question

Another newbie question: What’s the best way to store data in a Cocoa application written in Obj-C? For example if I want to create a sort of “quizzer” that quizzes the user with pre-written (and user-written) questions? How would I store these questions and answers? Core Data?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Of course it’s Core Data!

It will handle everything.. take a look here: http://developer.apple.com/macosx/coredata.html

It’s a full API that can handle:

• ORM between databases and run-time objects
• persistence
• automatic building tools (like an ER-editor)
• it’s ready out of the box, you won’t need to implement almost anything.. you will already have access to your data by just querying it to the object controllers

Probably this solution is over-sized for your problem but you will learn how to use it with a simple case, and I will come handy in the future..