How to get recent posts?

Well i am new to wordpress and i am stuck on this problem. I wasnt even get any closer to solve it. So i want to get three latest posts’ content and print them on screen.

Firstly i had tried to get the latest post’s id and decrement it one by one to create a dynamic latest post system. However, then i had realised that posts ids are random. Is there any way to display latest three posts on a page?