Lecture notes on representations of finite groups Next term I am supposed to teach a course on representation of finite groups. This is a third year course for undegrads. I was thinking to use the book of Grodon James and Martin Liebeck "Representations and characters of groups", but also looking for other references. 
The question is:  could you advise some other books (or lecture notes)? Maybe you had a nice experience of teaching or listening to a course with a similar title? It would be really nice if this book (notes) has also exercises.
ADDED. I would like to thank everybody who answered the question, very helpful answers!!! The answer of John Mangual below contains a "universal" reference. 
For the moment my favourites are Serre (very clear and short introduction of main ideas), some bits from notes of Teleman and Martin, and Etingof for beautiful exposition. My last problem is to have enough of exercises, in particular to write down a good exam. So I would like to ask if there are some additional references for exercises (with or without solutions)?   
 A: The first section of Representation Theory by Fulton and Harris is a great introduction to representations of finite groups (about a quarter of the book, if I remember correctly).  There are lots of examples and exercises.  The rest of the book is devoted to Lie theory.
A: At the risk of tooting my own horn, I have a new book that will be published by Springer which is a course on representation theory of groups intended for undergrads and beginning grads.  It assume only linear algebra, group theory and basic ring theory.  It assumes no module theory.  Included are applications to combinatorics and probability.  The link is
http://www.springer.com/mathematics/algebra/book/978-1-4614-0775-1?detailsPage=authorsAndEditors
and it should be out by the end of the year.
A: I was surprised to see Dummit and Foote's "Abstract algebra" book has a decent amount of basics on representations of finite groups.  I believe this was our 2nd year algebra text, when I was an undergraduate.  If your university uses this book, it might be cost effective for your students. 
When I took a course on representations we used Serre's book.  It's quite nice though it sounds like you want something that's a little more rich in examples and exercises. 
A: Artin's Algebra has a good chapter on representations of finite groups.  The exercises are nice.
A: Alperin and Bell's book is where I got my introduction to the representation theory of finite groups.  I didn't understand much at the time, but it helped a lot with getting my bearings as I delved deeper into representation theory in general.
If you're interested (as I am) specifically in representations of finite groups, there's a book by Digne and Michel; but this is probably far too much for undergraduates.
A: Here is one more reference (kindly communicated to me by one of my colleagues), the course of Iain Gordon. You can find the photos of all blackboards (I still have to go through this course, but it seem a bit similar in spirit to the courses of Teleman and Martin).
http://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/~igordon/4rt/rt2008.htm
ADDED.
I just read the article "Representation Theory" of Ian Grojnowski in the book "Princeton companion of mathematics". I find it really vivid, inspiring and amazingly well written. The first 6 pages are on finite groups, then it proceeds to compact Lie groups and non-compact Lie groups, and smoothly finishes with Langlands correspondence :). The beginning will serve perfectly for the introductory lecture of my course :).
A: I like M. Isaacs, "Representation theory of finite groups" since it has lots of exercises.
A: The middle third of Serre's "Linear Representations of Finite Groups" is excellent. It's in 3 totally seperate sections, the first third is ok but very elementary and the last third is tough going.  But the middle is "just right."
A: Some material from the undergrad rep theory course in Cambridge: Example sheets, A recent set of notes (by Martin), and a less recent (but very nice) set of notes (by Teleman).
A: I enjoyed Pavel Etingof's lecture notes for his representation theory class, which can be found here:
http://www-math.mit.edu/~etingof/replect.pdf
(there is a link to it on his website)
They move fast, but without skipping too much and still providing insightful proofs of results.
A: Mikhail Khovanov lists a bunch of materials for his course Representations of Finite Groups.  Of course, he would be more interested in Hopf Algebras, their Representations, Applications, and Categorifications...
