How would I make this very simple card game?

ok, I'm a complete noob at this, and I wanted to try my hand at actually making something. My idea is to make a sword-fighting card game, where you get five cards out of a deck, and the cards are split up into different groups, attack and defense. If you have, for instance, a stab, then you can lay that down and the opponent has to lay down a defensive card that will block the stab, such as a downward block. If the defender doesn't have the appropriate defensive card, then he loses a health point etc. It's a pretty simple game.

I have been trying to figure out how to do this, but I have no experience with this engine, and little to no programming skill. Can someone tell me what the best thing to do to get started on this would be?

I have a feeling I should work off of the Solitaire demo game, since that would be a good interface base for the game... but I am at a loss for how to actually start.

thanks for the help!