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Your method does not really store a brick, it just draws a filled rectangle.

Like Norm said in post #29, you should have a brick class (and a ball class).

The brick class constructor would be...

Only using one brick, (for now) is not a good reason to continue down a rocky road.

Correct. So even if the brick was gone rather than 'invisible-on-screen', your method will still signal that you...

In 3 different methods you have the same line (except once the variable name is different:This tells me you should have a higher level scope for just one variable and use it in all of the methods.
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