In the folder of Start menu > Programs > Microchip >MPlab > Documentation Device Support.

I ctrl-F and asked Firefox to find 1825 to get to the16F1825 and found that you are right to worry.

You would need a PICKit 3 at least.

Sorry to have steered you off course.

Support may be forthcoming or inappropriate for the tool or device.

 

F1 Evaluation Kit (DV164132) $70
PIC18 Development Kit (DV164136) $165
PICkit™ 3 Debug Express (DV164131) $70

Three different packages that include a PICkit 3.

 

PICKIT2 can also program it with the PICKIT2 software, but if you can afford it you may as well get the PICKIT3.
http://www.microchip.com/stellent/idcplg?IdcService=SS_GET_PAGE&nodeId=1406&dDocName=en027813

 

I ended up getting the PICKIT3 and I feel like I may be overlooking something but where in the hell can I place my PIC16F1825 so I can program it! I'm sweating buckets.

 

I ended up getting the PICKIT3 and I feel like I may be overlooking something but where in the hell can I place my PIC16F1825 so I can program it! I'm sweating buckets.

You don't place the PIC, you place the PicKit.

When you build your breadboard add in a 6 pin connector, really just 6 pins spaced 0.1" apart. That's all you need to hold a PicKit, and you wire 5 of those pins to your PIC and you can program and also debug it.

Look thru the data sheet to find the ICSP (In Circuit Serial Programming) pins.