This introduction will acquaint you with the most important workflows to get you started with your MITK development. First, The Architecture of MITK will explain the differences between the application and the toolkit. Setting Up Mitk will get you started with a working environment for MITK development. Getting to know MITK will walk you trough the folder structure, the module system, and plugin system. This chapter also contains an extensive tutorial on how to work with MITK. The First steps in Development section will then show you how to extend MITK for your own project.