Or, how I love to not reinvent the wheel!

I was browsing this thread over in the Java forum and I wrote a quick diddy that has a square ping pong back and forth between two "walls", nothing fancy, but illustrates a concept we as programmers should take to heart: do not reinvent the wheel.


Sure, I could have written my own function to determine if two rectangles had intersection within the next "cycle", OR I could use java.awt.Rectangle's intersects() function. But...do I really need a homebrew solution for my rectangle? The answer is a resounding no, even if I was to make the movement more complex (angles, rather then straight horizontal motion), I still could utilize (or leverage if you're into buzzwords) the power of the standard Java library to meet my needs.


Here's a picture!




How awesome are pictures?


Source code can be found here.