If you want the last 10000 blocks... ask a node!
The node will give them to you. Of course you need to speak to the node in its language, its API.
If you want the whole steem blockchain as a regular DB, follow this guy's howto and use his snapshot.
https://steemit.com/hivemind/@emrebeyler/steps-to-restore-a-hivemind-database-snapshot
Call me arrogant if you like, but
How does one do that without being a programmer? Impossible right now.
if you are not a programmer, why on earth would you like to download blocks?
If you are not a programmer, use a shiny frontend trusting its vendor ;-)
Or if you can at least do some basic coding, use the many frameworks like beem to interact with the blockchain.