Making a sunflower center with Fibonacci spiral of dots: I'm a very new beginner to Illustrator

I read a previous thread about creating a sunflower center with a Fibonacci spiral of dots or squares. I could sort of follow what was being suggested, but not quite. I am a very very new Illustrator user, learning it now in a graphic design course. Could someone please explain, in terms this raw beginner could follow, how to get that so-beautiful spiral of dots that looks just like a sunflower center? I have been a sunflower lover for years (it's the theme in my kitchen), and it was just so natural for the Fibonacci spiral of its seeds to pop into my head when we've been asked to design a logo. Part of my logo design will be based on a stylized sunflower, and it will look so cool to get the seeds arrangement right.
Thanks in advance for any help in this endeavor.

The first problem I see with the Florales Mustermit dem Transformationseffekt erstellen is my apprehensions that I can accurately carry out the instructions. We are presently working with the pen function, to get better control of that wild thing. We haven't gotten to transform, although I have doodled with it on my own. The second is anatomical accuracy. The middle of the swirl created above is empty. I see the Fibonacci spirals of stylized sunflower seeds on certain websites, so I know Illustrator can make them. Now, how to make ME make them, LOL! As I told Monika (who I thank again, profusely), I will try this tonight when I get home from work (I am presently a high school teacher in a school system that is self-destructing, making teaching less of a career and more a journey through Dante's Inferno.). I am sure it is I who will end up spiraling after a night of trying this, but I will persist! We have learned to copy, the two types of selection arrows, and very recently image tracing, after a long stint of introducing us to InDesign. I hope that somewhere in my new little bag of tricks there will be the means to do this.

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