This document provides an introduction and overview of MATLAB. MATLAB is a high-performance language for technical computing, computation, visualization, and programming. It is useful for tasks like math and computation, algorithm development, modeling, simulation, data analysis, scientific and engineering graphics, and application development. MATLAB represents everything as matrices and is an interpreted language, so no compilation is needed. It has a vast library of functions and is widely used in teaching and research. While it is good for rapid prototyping, MATLAB may be slow for some processes and not well-suited for large-scale system development or web applications. The document provides examples of MATLAB code and discusses how images can be represented and manipulated as matrices in MATLAB.