My basic snake game "flashes"

[fr0z3n]

I recently programmed the very basics of a snake game. All it does is have the snake move and the tail follow. As it moves around the whole border flashes every time I use system("cls") and i redraw the border. This makes sense as it have to redraw everything on the screen. I was wondering it there is a way to only clear the snake and not the whole "map".

[firedraco]

Yes. Go look into a console library like ncurses or similar; they are much more flexible (and safer) than using system().