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;
}