Timeline
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This is a suggested timeline to fullfill **minimal** requirements
expected from you at the AFIT project.

**During First Practical**

   You are expected to have understood how to manipulate and use your
   testing environment. You're expected to be able to go fully through the
   documentation that has been made available for you as well as
   through your repository structure. You should have started
   filling in the ``Source/buitlin/builtin.ml`` file and managed to
   test it. And you should at least have finished this file at the end
   of first week.

**By Second Practical**

   You are expected to have started filling the files
   ``Source/builtin/basic_arithmetics.ml``,
   ``Source/builtin/power.ml``, ``Source/builtin/test_primes.ml`` and
   ``Source/builtin/generate_primes.ml``. Lab assistants and maths
   teachers are at your disposal to answer probable questions
   regarding the Bézout algorithm, modular power function,
   pseudo-prime testing and file writing functions. The
   above mentioned files should be finished at the end of second week.

**By Third (and last) Practical**

   You are expected to have started filling the files
   ``Source/builtin/ciphers.ml``, ``Source/builtin/break_ciphers.ml``
   and ``encoding.ml``. Once you're at this stage, you will have already 
   gone through the main conceptual difficutlies.

**By Deadline**

   You are expected to have started the ``scalable`` stage: at least fill 
   the file ``Source/scalable/scalable.ml`` on ``bitarray`` arithmetic
   operations.
   
**If you want to do more than the minimal requirements**

   Your priority should be finishing the ``scalable`` stage. To fill the
   other ``.ml`` files, copy the code of the corresponding files from the 
   ``builtin`` stage and replace the arithmetic operations with those 
   implemented in ``scalable.ml``.
   
   Then, if you have time, you can go into the ``zarithing`` stage.