Yo, forget about the binary, that's too lower level. We don't code in binary, everything is translated to int, long, double, String, date, pointers/addresses, and much higher level like Vetor3D and Texture. Now adays, people barely code the high level sorted list/heap, usually the language already provide you an optimised dynamic sorted list or 3rd party solutions. And C# and Java has automatic memory allocation and deallocation, so you don't deal with memory at all. Hell, Windows Form Layout, is not even coded in C++ anymore, it is totally text based XAML.

But if you go to UC grade colleges, you will at least learn assembly language and ALU hardware deisgn. Those two deals with micro-programming and how hardware calculate binary data.

And check out the MS Robotics forum, it should be at much lower level dealing with sensors.