LED crash course

Step 1)
  Prepair you bread board with power like so:


Step2)
  Place a LED in the breadboard  like so:


Step3)
  The led had a 'flat' on one side, this side goes to negitive. Put a wire from that side to negitive, like so:


Step 4)
   Put a 1K (stripes go brown, black, red, gold)  resistor from the other terminal of the LED to positive. Something like this: