What would be the best way to implement the game nibble/snake? I’m thinking of writing it as my next games programming practice project.

How do I actually represent the snake, do I use an array to represent the area in which the snake can move. This is what came to my mind.

I thought if I represented the whole thing as an array I could represent the snake as a number say 1 and the things he picks up/eats as 2. I could move the snake around by moving the values around in the array might be tricky when the snake turns?

I've seen an example just quickly where I think he was using a row & column method.

Any ideas would be helpful, and THANKS IN ADVANCE!!!