Awesome, me too. What uni are you going to?
Stirling wbu?
We started with "Objects First with Java: A Practical Introduction Using BlueJ" which helped a lot with the initial concepts of object oriented programming in Java, but after the first semester the BlueJ interface was very limiting so we switched to Netbeans, which is where most people started to have troubles understanding what was going on.
Personally I think it was a good introduction, but it's not for everyone.
but they are made by the same people.