There's no more learning required for changing Emacs keybindings than in other IDEs. If you don't want to go the scripting way, you can use the Customize interface, which is Emacs's equivalent of Settings dialog in most other software. Hell, unlike most software, Customize interface gives you a choice between applying changes temporarily and permanently, so you can try things out and if you mess up, just restart the editor.

(Under the hood, stuff you change via Customize gets serialized into a file called custom.el. But you don't have to know that to use it.)