Clean Code: Should Objects have public properties?

Question

I\'m reading the book \"Clean Code\" and am struggling with a concept. When discussing Objects and Data Structures, it states the following:

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Answer 1

Properties are essentially short hand for Getter and Setter methods. The point of Getter and Setter methods is to have the object handle any operations on variables so that you can do any extra operations (such as data-validation) without causing undesirably consequences.

I think that you may be hung up on automatic properties, which have no backing variables and, as a result, look like variables themselves.