Switching to IT: Becoming a software developer with no background or previous experience — Part 1/3

Mário Cosme
5 min readJun 10, 2021

I’ve been wanting to talk about this topic for a while now, not to tell my story or how I managed to start working as a software developer (mobile developer in my specific case), but to openly talk about something that a lot of people have been considering and some have been struggling with.

I’ve received a lot of messages in the past years asking what course I enrolled in, or how did I initially set up my CV, how did I start programming. The list goes on and on…

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Mário Cosme

🇵🇹 Senior iOS Developer @ Siemens Mobility — Coding by day, gaming by night.