8. Starting an iOS Application
Now that you have the basic skills down, let’s move on to a real project. You’ll build an iPhone application that manages a list of quarterbacks and displays their game and career statistics.
Planning the App
Before coding, it’s best (though not customary) to know what you’re doing. Specifically, what are you going to present to the app’s user, what data do you need to keep to make that presentation, and how do you translate between the data and the presentation?
Model-View-Controller
The Model-View-Controller (MVC) design pattern formalizes those questions into an architecture for graphical applications. The Cocoa Touch application framework is designed to implement applications that follow the MVC pattern. ...
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