This theme is just fork from sexy-monochrome-theme which is based on the Xavier Noria monochrome-theme. And impressed by "Monochrome color scheme for Vim"
I think colour make me confused when you start hacking. However, I would recommend using colors when you are learning new language.
throw this file into ~/.emacs.d and_
(add-to-list 'custom-theme-load-path
"~/.emacs.d/YOUR_FOLDER_WITH_THEME/")
and
M-x load-theme RET simple-monochrome RET
then put in your init file
(load-theme 'simple-monochrome)
Works with Emacs >= 24.