Welcome to the world of programming with MATLAB! If you’ve never written a line of code before, you’re in the right place. This guide is designed to introduce you to the fundamental concepts of MATLAB in a simple, step-by-step way.

The name MATLAB is short for “matrix laboratory,” which hints at its core strength. At its heart, MATLAB is an interactive environment and a high-level programming language designed for numerical computation, data analysis, and visualization.

We’ll start our journey in the Command Window, which is the main area where you will enter commands. Think of it as a super-complex calculator where you can immediately see the results of your calculations.