What is the difference between these two functions/approaches?

Question

I use only jQuery for writing JavaScript code. One thing that confuses me is these two approaches of writing functions,

First approach

Answer 1

The first is a function expression assigned to the vote variable, the second is a function declaration.

The main difference is that function statements are evaluated at parse time, they are available before its declaration at runtime.

See also:

• Named function expressions demystified (article)
• Explain JavaScript’s encapsulated anonymous function syntax