Certainly. But typically you'd put it on your target board or breadboard with a 2x5 ICSP connector and cable to it for programming. Moving the chip back and forth is a really horrible/dumb way to do it. That's what ICSP (In Circuit Serial Programming) was invented for. Simply change your program, hit a couple keys or mouse clicks and the chip is programmed, ready for test. You'll do it hundreds and thousands of times when programming MCU's. If you moved the chip back and forth that many times the pins would wear out and break off, not to mention that is tedious and slow. ICSP is fast and easy.
Certainly. The 18F1320 is a much more modern chip than the ancient 16F628A. Nicer to use in many ways.
If you aren't comfortable with soldering yet, you can buy the
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Or you could buy a **broken link removed** or a
PICkit 2 clone (same programmer, but without the tutor section).
Looks like this in action:
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