If you come over this post I'd like to cheer you and say that you are the very special person!
Why? Because you probably a software developer, or might want to become one.
There are a list of steps that are required to obtain a recognized professional qualification. The necessary conditions, you become a professional in the relevant field. I did not mean that it is easy to become a doctor, but everyone knows how to do it!
Now ask Google «how to become a software developer." Answers like that I used, are reduced to vague platitudes: "learn a programming language," "Participate in the creation of open source," "join the local community of programmers."
There is no clear plan for building a career or any guarantees about when or whether you will become a professional at all, not a word about how you will manage to get a paying job in the future!