Lucas; I agree with Nic here. I come from a programming background but when I
started using ChucK I has little to no knowledge of audio synthesis, so while I could extract a lot of knowledge about the language from the manual and browsing the example code (which is great by the way) I really don't feel that I'm using all of ChucK's potential to create interesting audio pieces, mostly beeps and noises and stuff like that.
That's a huge subject and whole volumes could (and have!) been written even on small parts of it. One good place to get ideas is this series; http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/allsynthsecrets.htm (early parts are on the bottom of the page). This is mostly about creating sounds with traditional synths, but it is abstracted far enough to be useful anywhere. I think the main reason why that series has such a good reputation is that it's very accessible (no higher math or physics needed) yet doesn't sacrifice depth. The diagrams are nice and clear too. Yours, Kas.