How to take the first order without a portfolio?

To make a portfolio

With minimal cost for execution or for free, unless you want to pay without portfolio.

The oldest story in the world and only one recipe Lebedev told a thousand times. Take/come up with some firm, find what can be helpful and implementthese these benefits in a product or its prototype. So will a portfolio. This is the easiest and most enjoyable way because you do for free what they want and not what is forced.

1. pOh, rtfolio
2. To take just, but will not give one. Down the price, someone lays a hand on the positives for sure.
3. What's the problem to make a portfolio?

Work on a portfolio first. Think of interesting tasks/projects that you can implement and which are similar to the ones you expect. Make them for themselves.

In parallel on the stock exchanges spoke to the smaller tasks you need to perform a few of these just to reviews and ratings.

But then we can try to take the normal orders.

No way. Make a portfolio.

The initial portfolio is not just a bait for the customer.
It is the result of practice, and proof that you are capable of doing the projects.

If you don't want to do their own training project that will not be ashamed then to show you're lazy, and you're on the bottom of the food pyramid.

To become a real programmer™ - need a few years of practice.