cookbook

4 definitions found

cookbook - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Cookbook \Cook"book`\ (-b[oo^]k`), n.
     A book of directions and receipts for cooking; a cookery
     book. [U.S.]
     [1913 Webster]
  
           "Just How": a key to the cookbooks.      --Mrs. A. D.
                                                    T. Whitney.
     [1913 Webster]

cookbook - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  cookbook
      n 1: a book of recipes and cooking directions [syn: cookbook,
           cookery book]

cookbook - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  cookbook
  
     <programming> (From amateur electronics and radio) A book of
     small code segments that the reader can use to do various
     magic things in programs.
  
     One current example is the "PostScript Language Tutorial and
     Cookbook" by Adobe Systems, Inc (Addison-Wesley, ISBN
     0-201-10179-3), also known as the Blue Book which has
     recipes for things like wrapping text around arbitrary curves
     and making 3D fonts.
  
     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.
  
     [Jargon File]
  
     (1994-11-04)
  

cookbook - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  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.