I like online programming challenges like this demo offered by Codility, it reassures me that I might still be able to think, check it out here:
This was my solution:
private static int equi(int[] A) { if (null == A) { return -1; } int size = A.length; if (size == 0) { return -1; } long runningSum = 0; long[] runningSums = new long[size]; for (int i = 0; i < size; i++) { runningSum += A[i]; runningSums[i] = runningSum; } for (int i = 0; i < size; i++) { long lhsSum = runningSums[i] - A[i]; long rhsSum = runningSum - runningSums[i]; if(lhsSum == rhsSum) { return i; } } return -1; }