help on this very small practice program

/*Ok first of all I just want to tell you that by this you're not doing my homework, because I am learning on my own right now.....This is just from a book that I am reading....and I decided to do something extra */
//Listing 10.1 Overloading class member functions

#include <iostream>

// Rectangle class declaration
class Rectangle
{
public:
// constructors
Rectangle(int width, int height);
~Rectangle(){}

// overloaded class function DrawShape
void DrawShape() const;
void DrawShape(int aWidth, int aHeight) const;

private:
int itsWidth;
int itsHeight;
};

//Constructor implementation
Rectangle::Rectangle(int width, int height)
{
itsWidth = width;
itsHeight = height;
}


// Overloaded DrawShape - takes no values
// Draws based on current class member values
void Rectangle::DrawShape() const
{
DrawShape( itsWidth, itsHeight);
}


// overloaded DrawShape - takes two values
// draws shape based on the parameters
void Rectangle::DrawShape(int width, int height) const
{
for (int i = 0; i<height; i++)
{
for (int j = 0; j< width; j++)
{
std::cout << "*";
}
std::cout << "\n";
}
}

// Driver program to demonstrate overloaded functions
int main()
{
// initialize a rectangle to 30,5
Rectangle theRect(30,5);
std::cout << "DrawShape(): \n";
theRect.DrawShape();
std::cout << "\nDrawShape(40,2): \n";
theRect.DrawShape(40,2);
return 0;
}

/* I want to creat a member method that takes in one pararemeter either width or height.... so then I can overload drawshape, and then getting the other missing argument by means of using enum, please help...........*/


PS THIS IS NOT MY HOMEWORK....using Sams Teach Yourself C++ in 21 days.

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My recommendation is to leave that book completely. I was doing the same thing that you are doing only to find out that I had missed a lot of key information that it missed. Therefore, I had to start all over using a different book. Goto this site:

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By the way, DO NOT BUMP
:D

int width;
int height;
int choice:
int continue = 1;

srand(time(NULL));

while(continue != 0)
{
cout << "do you wish to enter" << endl;
cout << "1)width or " << endl;
cout << "2) height " << endl;
cin >> choice;
//data validate here
switch (choice)
{
case 1:
cout << "after you enter the value for width the computer will generate a random value for height" << endl;
cin >> width;
height = (rand() % 3) + 1;//use enum here instead if you wish
DrawShape(width, height);
case 2:
//similar for width
default:
//etc.
}
cout << "to stop enter zero' << endl;}
}