Java: Calculating the angle between two points in degrees

Question

I need to calculate the angle in degrees between two points for my own Point class, Point a shall be the center point.

Method:

public float getAngle(         


        

Answer 1

angle = Math.toDegrees(Math.atan2(target.x - x, target.y - y));

now for orientation of circular values to keep angle between 0 and 359 can be:

angle = angle + Math.ceil( -angle / 360 ) * 360