This reading group was done with two undergraduates during Spring 2024 as part of the WDRP. The description of the project can be found here. This project was designed with the intent to develop representation theory of finite groups over fields of characteristic zero (mainly complex numbers) with minimal background and an emphasis on using many examples and exercises.
In addition to the, always wonderful, notes from Keith Conrad the main references we used were:
"Representing Finite Groups: A Semisimple Approach" by Ambar N. Sengupta
"Linear Representations of Finite Groups" by Jean-Pierre Serre
"Abstract Algebra" by Dummit & Foote (Exercises)