Programming PIC 16f877A via max232 serial port

Hi

I bought PIC learning board with UART, is it possible to programm it via UART?
This is the board: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Study-learning-Development-Board-PIC-MCU-PIC16F877A-/260787172587

it can be programmed using the usb link

PIC uses ISP porgramming via ICSP pins and does not support UART programmability natively but you can do it using a uart bootloader. But why you want to do that? Dont you have PICKit2/PICKit3? I suggest you get one and it will make things a lot better and easier for you.