Hello BitCoinTalk! I'm a newbie, it seems.

I'm not new to the whole BitCoin-mining thing, and I know a thing or two about mining to get anyone going. But!
I have absolutely no clue about what a FPGA is, and how it works - and for a matter of fact, it doesn't really matter. I just want it to work.


Now, I've been looking for a FPGA to run while I'm waiting for my ASIC from the (beloved, lol) ButterFly Labs. I've found one here: [http://www.ztex.de/usb-fpga-1/usb-fpga-1.15x.e.html]
It looks like this:
http://www.ztex.de/imgs/usb-fpga-1.15x-400.jpg


And already here I'm quite confused. I have absolutely no clue how this works. I have no idea how to connect a power source to this, or if it just runs by USB?
Now...

My question is:
- If I wanted to buy this, should I be prepared to do some heavy programming? Can I just buy this and plug it into a PC and let it run?
Or should I have some programming knowledge at first?
I'm heavily confused, but I got quite some cash that can be spent while waiting for ButterFly Labs.


P.S. I'm sorry if my English is broken. I haven't really used it for quite a while.