Version 5.0

[exarobibliologist]

Version 5 contains a lot of changes, both in how the code is structured and the organization of the code elements.

Did more research on the history of geekcode, found more examples of old geekcode online, and decided to back up these examples to the geekcode repo (Now, no matter whether the websites continue to be maintained or not, these older examples will always be here on the repo to show how far we've come.)

Changes

1. Added two new symbols

   • The _ symbol is optional and can show a baseline score, instead of leaving a category empty
   • The ^ symbol shows that a geek has a degree or certificate in a particular area.
   • • The ^ symbol does the same job as the "Education" section did, so "Education" was removed.

2. Code Changes

   • The code no longer uses case-sensitive categories. You won't see "C" (for Computers) along with "c" (for clothing) anymore.
   • • To accomplish this, some categories and letters have been changed.
   • • Letter groupings are used so that there was no repetition of single letters among the categories.
   • • • C = Clothing, and CM = Computers
   • • • B = Beard/Hair, and BK = Books
   • • • etc, etc...

• B changed to multi-section without category designators.

• • Maybe I have a bad mind, but when I see "bm" I think bowel movement, "bb" is a droid in Star Wars, and "bs" is... well, you probably already know. ;)
• • The code has 5 sections now! We can now designate what our hair looks like across 5 areas instead of just 4 before. And this section can be easily expanded in the future, if needed.

• Microsoft is back! Microsoft has given too many geeks headaches for it to be ignored any longer.

• • Updated the description so it sounds more modern.

• Frontend / Backend Merged

• • New code section Input/Output ("IO") delimited with colon defines them both.

• Gender, Relationship, Sex sections merged!

• • There was a lot of overlap in those sections, so they were merged, and can all be defined in one piece of code.
• • Non-binary genders ("Q") given better support, and forked away from the "Z" label (which is only used for undisclosed gender)

• Sections reorganized

• • Computers section organized so Operating Systems (MW, U, MC) come first, followed by Programming Languages, and then by Applications (IO, PGP)

[jeremy-rutman]

will see if i can make some time to write a decoder