Mod 4 was the culmination of the mods that came before it. I had some experience in web development before I came to Turing (although almost none in JS specifically). I could build a website but it was extremely difficult for me and took forever. So my top goal in choosing Turing was to be able to work significantly more quickly and confidently.
The projects in Mod 4 were proof that this goal has been reached. We began with Palette Picker. While it took me a day or so to get back into the jQuery groove (after several months in React), I quickly became comfortable with the task at hand. I had already written an app with a backend at the end of Mod 3, and so I wrote the majority of the backend for Palette Picker the night before Mod 4 started. As a result, the heavy stress of that first week was mitigated and I was able to simply tidy up the backend and build the jQuery frontend. It was pretty cool to be able to h