Can anyone lend an Arduino noob a hand?

and of course by this I mean how would I do so

What do you mean by soft-code? To me, this means that you want to change, at run time, the servo position. That's what zoomkat's code does.

If you want to send the servo to a specific position, that is hard-coding the position.

int pos = 78;
myServo.write(pos);