First, find a better color scheme for something you intend people to read. That was painful.

Second, when I was a CS student I expected to be graded on my response to a particular problem. If you wanted me to roll my own sort, I expect that to be specified. If you want me to explain in comments why I chose certain algorithms say something in class. I'm not going to waste time implementing an efficient sorting algorithm for a 100 element list (or 1000 even) just to provide a TA with a nerdgasm.

I feel this article is asking if students should be graded on an arbitrarily deep rubric. I had enough to worry about as an undergrad without caring if a bored TA was going to dock me 10 points for calling Arrays.sort.