Once upon a time the concept of a table was somewhat harder to explain. Nowadays it is easy to say that a data table is like a spreadsheet, and if that doesn't work, you simply mention the brand of whatever spreadsheet program happens to be popular at the time. Still, that is not exactly a good analogy; in a spreadsheet, any cell can contain anything you want, completely unrelated the contents of its neighbors.
In a database table, each row will contain assorted information about an item, students on a class, passengers on a tour, tracks in a music album, or departing flights, while each column will contain similar information about each of the items such as names, destinations, departure times, grades, and so on. We call each row a record, each column a column, and the data at each intersection a field. All the fields in the same column will be of the same data type. In the names column, they will all be strings; if grades, they will be letters or numbers (it varies...