Placement of <script src="scripts.js"></script>

I think as long as it's the last thing in your file before the body tag, it should run with the same functionality. I would have removed it from the div tag and placed it just above the closing body tag myself. I don't think you will see this like it is in this video as you move further through the javascript courses. It does effect how you write your code based on where the script tag is located.

for example if you have it in the header tag, you would need to do a document.ready and then possibly an event listener call for certain actions because you need the page to finish loading. When the script is just above the body tag, you could do just an event listener because the document has already loaded. So placement does matter.