Experience, really? How is that even possible before you have worked at your first job.
I've heard of employers asking for experience but in college/universities we all work on projects or don't we? Like those brick game and all? Don't they count as projects?
I mean you could choose an area that interests you and acquire skills in it and then come up with something ( anything ) that you can sell yourself on. Why does it have to be a set defined way.. Highlight that in the resume so it can overshadow the experience part.. You have no control over the experience part.
For instance, in core Java not many people ( I am also one of them ) are adept at basics and advanced topics.. like multi threading, file input output, socket programming, regular expressions, and such things. It's always nice to acquire any of those skills. Even designing the exception handling and error logging part of an application needs study ( when I say study it includes reading about it, discussing about it, writing real code,
testing it, and analyzing it, and writing it again till you get it right ). This will also give you an idea of small fun applications you might want to create for yourself... And if it turns out to be a nice one, you can even mention it in your resume. If not, you acquired a skill and mention that in your resume. Tell them you've never been in a professional setting but that never was an issue for you. If you like, you can even write a short write up about it-- your own theory on the subject-- you could attach it as an annexure or something. I mean it doesn't have to be just this.. you could do things differently.
A lot of people hold negative opinion of those who have acquired a skill through book reading. I disagree with that cause different people have different styles of reading a book. If you're coding and testing and reading and coding and testing and thinking of scenarios where something might apply, I think that's good reading. And there are many good books out there, thanks to the wonderful authors who write these books.
Some skills are currently the hot skills... like groovy/scala/javascript... a lot of people are asking for those things and they don't mind even if you've acquired those skills through reading. If you like, you may even want to acquire the basic knowledge about at least one such hot skill.