  This review is based on lectures given at the 45th Saas-Fee Advanced Course
'From Protoplanetary Disks to Planet Formation' held in March 2015 in Les
Diablerets, Switzerland. Starting with an overview of the main characterictics
of the Solar System and extrasolar planets, we describe the planet formation
process in terms of the sequential accretion scenario. First the growth
processes of dust particles to planetesimals and subsequently to terrestrial
planets or planetary cores are presented. This is followed by the formation
process of the giant planets either by core accretion or gravitational
instability. Finally, the dynamical evolution of the orbital elements as driven
by disk-planet interaction and the overall evolution of multi-object systems is
presented.
