Well, long "story" short: Just started my 2nd year doing a degree in Comp. Science from home, and I thought I'd check out some jobs, to find out what exactly will be expected of me. Everywhere I looked, they want experience, some not even mentioning degrees and what-not.

So, I was wondering, where does one start getting experience then? If I were to just create a few random (preferably useful) applications in these next 2 years I have left, before I have to start facing the real world, would that at least count as some experience?