The interface for material looks different than the one on tutorial I am a complete beginner and following a tutorial about how to put a texture on a cube. I think maybe they have a different version of Blender because what I see in a few places is different so it is very hard to follow.

In the video after UV unwrapping the cube they click to create a new material then click this little button next to the colour and then get a menu where they can choose 'Image texture'



But in my Blender which is 2.79b when I click Add material it looks like this:



As you can see it is totally different and I can't find anywhere a Color box with a button like in the video. I can't even see 'Surface' anywhere. So I am stuck.


Did they change Blender so much I need to find a new tutorial for my version?
Is there a simple way to do the same thing in the version I have?
OK I found a comment about something called Cycles mode. I don’t know why but apparently you have to switch it to Cycles Render.

There is a menu at the very top of the window. This was not explained in the video. I would love to know more about why it's different or what this means!