cookbook

( n.)

   [from  amateur  electronics  and radio] A book of small code segments
   that  the  reader  can  use to do various {magic} things in programs.
   Cookbooks,   slavishly   followed,   can   lead   one   into  {voodoo
   programming},  but are useful for hackers trying to {monkey up} small
   programs in unknown languages. This function is analogous to the role
   of phrasebooks in human languages.

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