Polymorphism

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I am needing help with polymorphism. I have no clue how to work with this. I have to write a program that creates an Orc and a Human and demonstrates the behavior of the classes. I am just needing some help with setting this program up. I have set up the classes with the information, but how do I get the createCharacter function to work? I know my program is not correct right now and I have some errors and things, but I am still just trying to get a better understanding of this. These are the requirements:

We will have a “Character” class first. Character class takes care of creation of a character.

Protected Member Variable:
characterTotal - This will hold the total of character stats.
Public Member Functions:
createCharacter - This function should be a pure virtual function.

Next, define a class named Human. It should be derived from the Character class.
It should have the following members:

Private Member Variables:
characterStrength - STR of the Character (0 to 18)
characterDexterity - DEX of the Character (0 to 18)
characterIntelligence - INT of the Character (0 to 18)
characterType - (Can be “Paladin”, “Ranger” or “Wizard”)

Public Member Functions:
constructor - accepts values for STR, DEX, INT and character type. Should call
the overridden createCharacter function.
getStrength - returns the value of characterStrength.
getDexterity - returns the value of characterDexterity.
getIntelligence - returns the value of characterIntelligence.
getType - returns the value of characterType.


Next, define a class named Orc. It should be derived from the Character class. It should have the following members:
Private Member Variables:
characterStrength - STR of the Character (0 to 18)
characterDexterity - DEX of the Character (0 to 18)
characterIntelligence - INT of the Character (0 to 18)
characterClan - (Can be “Barbarian”, “Berserker” or “Vanguard”)

Public Member Functions:
constructor - accepts values for STR, DEX, INT and character clan. Should call
the overridden createCharacter function.
getStrength - returns the value of characterStrength.
getDexterity - returns the value of characterDexterity.
getIntelligence - returns the value of characterIntelligence.
getClan - returns the value of characterClan.

At this step we can define createCharacter and showCharacter functions of each of the classes.

For Human class createCharacter will:
Get the values of STR, DEX and INT. Will calculate the total of the values.
(Let’s assume STR = 17, DEX = 12 and INT = 10. It will store 37 into characterTotal.Itwill print out a message: “The strong human Paladin, has a total scoreof 37.” (Strong adjective comes due to STR being 17. If something is above 17 you should say something related. STR = strong, DEX = dexterous, INT =
intelligent).

For Orc class createCharacter will:
Get the values of STR, DEX and INT. Will calculate the total of the values.
However Orcs receive -2 to INT and DEX. They receive +2 to STR. (Let’s
assume STR = 16, DEX = 10 and INT = 8. It will store 16+2,10-2,8-2 = 28 into
characterTotal.
It will print out a message “The berserker Orc has a total score of 28.” (Here the
Orcs get their adjectives from their clan names so you do not need to do
something specific to STR, DEX or INT.)

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This is my code.

#include <iostream>  
#include "Character.h"
#include "Human.h"
#include "Orc.h"

using namespace std;

//Main.cpp
int main()
{
	char choice;
	char userC;
	cout << "Welcome!\n";
	cout << "" << endl;
	
	cout << "Pick your choice:\n";
	cout << "A -- Human\n";
	cout << "B -- Orc\n";
	cin >> choice;
	
	switch (choice)
	{
		case 'a':
		case 'A': 
					cout << "Please choose one of the following\n";
					cout << "A -- Paladin \n";
					cout << "B -- Ranger \n";
					cout << "C -- Wizard \n";\
					cin >> userC;
					cout << "" << endl;
					createCharacter();
					characterTotal = characterStrength + characterDexterity + characterIntelligence 
					
		
		
		
		
		
		
		
		
		case 'b':
		case 'B':
					cout << "Please choose one of the following\n";
					cout << "A -- Barbarian \n";
					cout << "B -- Berserker \n";
					cout << "C -- Vanguard \n";\
					cin >> userC;
					cout << "" << endl;
					createCharacter();
					characterTotal = characterStrength + characterDexterity + characterIntelligence 
					
		
		
		
		
		
	}
	
	return 0;
}

//character.h
#ifndef CHARACTER_H
#define CHARACTER_H

using namespace std;

class Character
{
	protected:
				float characterTotal;
				
	public:
				virtual void createCharacter() = 0; //Pure virtual function
				
				
};

#endif 

#ifndef HUMAN_H
#define HUMAN_H

#include "Character.h"
using namespace std;

class Human
{
	private:
				int characterStrength();
				int characterDexterity();
				int characterIntelligence();
				string characterType();
				
	public:
				Human();//Constructor 
				
				int getStength()
				{
					cout << "Enter a number from 0 -18\n";
					return characterStrength;
				}
				
				int getDexterity()
				{
					return CharacterDexterity;
				}
				
				int getIntelligence()
				{
					return characterIntelligence;
				}
				
				string getType()
				{
					return characterType;
				}
				
				
};

#endif 

//orc.h
#ifndef ORC_H
#define ORC_H

#include "Character.h"
#include "Human.h"

using namespace std;

class orc
{
	private:
				int characterStrength();
				int characterDexterity();
				int characterIntelligence();
				string characterClan();
				
	public:
				orc(); //Constructor
				
				int getStrength()
				{
					return characterStrength;
				}
				
				int getDexterity()
				{
					return characterDexterity;
				}
				
				int getIntelligence()
				{
					return characterIntelligence;
				}
				string getClan()
				{
					return characterClan;
				}
				
};
#endif