Is there a reason to create the string variable before input?

Question

Newly learning java and for input, we did

Scanner scan = new Scanner(System.in);
String name;
System.out.println("What is your  name?");
name = scan.nextLine();
System.out.println(name);

However, I found that

Scanner scan = new Scanner(System.in);
String name = scan.nextLine();
System.out.println(name);

works the same. Is this being taught to me in the bigger form because it's more generally used/is clearer or am I just being taught the bigger form since I'm a beginner to avoid too much confusion? (Basically, are there any reasons why people would use the expanded version rather than the condensed version?)

Answer 1

https://stackoverflow.com/a/288479

-> It seems that in some old C-Standards you had to declare all variables in the beginning of a method. So I think they are just adhering to this when teaching it like this, but nowadays there is no real reason for this.