hkwhitten

'binary compiler' makes no sense. Binary code is the result of the compilation process. You can code directly in binary (or octal or hex or decimal, just different number bases) if you have a suitable editor (hex, or whatever) and knowledge of the target machine's instruction set. While an assembler …

Could you please provide the problem statement? The reason I ask is that, as stated, it is ambiguous. Picture the points occurring within a 5-point star pattern. You probably want the perimeter to be a pentagon - convex at every external point. Otherwise you still won't get a smooth star …

Hello - Your question is pretty general. Are you interested specifically in Microsoft technologies? If so, here's a rather old but comprehensive overview: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa226252(v=sql.70).aspx If you are considering open source technologies, you might take a look at what people are doing with Hadoop from Apache: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Hadoop Good luck.

CSV format means that cell contents are separated by commas. If you open the file with Excel, it will put each value in a separate cell. To put all the data into a single cell, you need to open the csv file in a text editor (like notepad), select all …

Define it outside (before) any functions or subroutines. (these are called "global variables.") "public level as string" looks correct. If you need persistence between executions, set up a routine to write the global variables' values to a file at termination and another to read them from a file at initialization. …