There are lots of ways to switch between windows in Emacs. I recently discovered that s-' (i.e. super and ' where super is the command key on a Mac) runs the command next-multiframe-window which cycles you through all the current windows regardless of which frame they are in. This is a nice quick way to switch to another window.

Aside: in Emacs terminology a frame is what most programmes call a window – the floating box containing the programme. In Emacs a frame can be split into several windows such as when you have several buffers open at the same time.