Okay, you have a newborn babe in computers here. I really want to learn animation. The bouncing ball tutorial looks easy enough. Yeah right!

I found how to make the ball, but can't make the stairs! I know, I'm really dumb. I thought I could make a cube and adjust it into a rectangle for the stairs? If so, how? I found how to move it anyway I want which is cool! But can't make the dumb stairs.

Is there a tutorial for the basic stuff like that?

Please help,
Thanks