I'm planning to do a project using ATmega (I can't use an Arduino directly because of my university's restrictions). But I really want to use the Arduino's IDE, serial monitor, plotting graphs using Processing for debugging purposes. Can I dump my regular ATmega code into an Arduino and use serial monitor for debugging purposes?
Can I use an Arduino Uno board just like any other normal AVR development board so that I can get the best of both worlds. I googled it, but I didn't get the answer I need.