Help with adding health to adventure game c++

[phantomxman]

I know this may be simple and seem like a dumb question but how can I add health to my adventure and display it. The main problem I am having with it is my teacher wants it in a class. But my program keeps throwing back errors. Below is all I have I tried having cout in there so I could just call the class to display it but it gave me an error.

  class Health

{  
   public:
   int damage = 100;
   int healthpoints = 500;
   
}

[EtDecius]

You'd want functions that interact with the health in some way. For example:

void ReduceHealth(int amount);    // lowers health, possibly when damage is dealt
void IncreaseHealth(int amount):   // increases health, possibly when healed
void DisplayHealth()    // print the current health value
bool IsDead()    // true if health is 0 or below 

If you have a Health class, you can use it within other classes like Character and Enemy.

Consider excluding Damage from the Health class members. Conceptually speaking, Health is a representation of "aliveness." Damage can be an outside force that influences Health via a Health class function.

[chipp]

@OP: maybe it's hard coz you only give a piece of your code...

[JayBari]

The suggestion by EtDecius is sound. The is dead is a function checks to see if health is below the minimum when ReduceeHealth() is called, but given most RPG systems it would be wise to have a function that checks that health is not above the maximum when IncreaseHealth() is called. This ensures that player's cannot continually use health potions or augment to get infinite health.

[phantomxman]

Sorry I didn't give my code since my project is extremely big at least to me. I forgot to put ask me if you want to put my code. I haven't yet got a chance to try the suggestions but I will soon hopefully it works out.