The two syntaxes for #include lines can be used in various ways, but very simply speaking, "" is for header files you've written, and <> is for headers which are provided for you (which someone else has written).
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#include is the preferred way to tie the declarations together for a large program. It guarantees that all the source files will be supplied with the same definitions and variable declarations, and thus eliminates a particularly nasty kind of bug. Naturally, when an included file is changed, all files that depend on it must be recompiled.That's the story on #include, in a nutshell.
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